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Cheat!

The Tax Trick

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

While planning for her wedding on the island of Jersey, Tanya Dick-Stock made a startling discovery: a room full of boxes that contained hundreds of thousands of documents. Turns out these documents would shed an entirely new light on the financial business that once had operated out of her family home. A Somethin' Else Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, like any ride to be, I was nervous and planning and running around like a chicken

0:14.3

with my head cut off and I had stuff being delivered from all over the place.

0:19.6

This is Tonya Dickstock, she's in the thrills of wedding planning.

0:23.4

I needed somewhere to store all of these boxes and whatnot that were coming in.

0:29.8

There was one of the outer buildings.

0:32.8

This building was located on St. John's Manor.

0:35.7

Tonya's family home located on the island of Jersey.

0:38.8

It was an old squash board and nobody played squash.

0:42.6

It was unused as far as I knew.

0:46.2

At this point, I should probably mention that Tonya comes from a family with a lot of money.

0:51.6

So yeah, they have a squash court on their grounds, a squash court that sits unused.

0:57.4

So I thought, ah, perfect, went out there, opened up the door, walked in, and there's just boxes

1:04.8

everywhere. They're stacked taller than me. Hundreds of them.

1:09.1

And I move looking around and I'm wondering what the world is this and they're

1:12.8

dusty and covered in cobwebs. You know, my heart sank a little because I was like,

1:17.7

I need this area. Maybe I can throw them away. I mean, it's junk, right?

1:23.6

So I'm looking at the labels and I noticed that there's a couple of million names that are my trust.

1:31.8

As is often the case with people who have money, they keep money in trust.

1:36.3

Trusts are a way of protecting their money from family squabbles, but also from real estate and

1:41.0

inheritance taxes. That's what she's talking about. The Russian trust, the Thai world trust,

1:46.2

they're on the boxes and I'm thinking, huh, well, maybe they'll be useful later.

1:52.4

So we put them out in the stables and stacked them up.

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