John, I am no expert on financial matter so what follows is what I understand the situation to be. The problem over here is that in much of southern England and in various other hot spots the price of houses is ridiculous. Even ignoring inner London which is probably like other capital cities, a very modest house in the south east of the UK will cost £150 - 200,000. A couple of derelict cottages with some land in the same area is about £600,000. I know someone in Cambridge which is one of the hot spots because it is only about an hour from London by train who had a queue of people outside a four bedroom detached house for sale in excess of £1.5 million. A terraced house (?town house in the USA) is going to cost over £0.5 million in the same area. Certainly there are areas of the UK where prices are much lower but if the area in which they exists is run down and then gets an area reconditioning the prices go up. Death duty (Inheritance tax) starts at £325,000 at the moment, if I have that figure correct, for one person and double that for a couple. Suppose you are single, and it is very likely that in the end you or your spouse will end up single, have a house and a couple of Vincent twins at £40 - 50,000 each. Then you, or your descendants, are liable for 40% of everything over the £325k mark. A modest house and one series 'A' twin, will take you into the tax bracket. Those of us who have owned Vincents for years because we like them, with no thought of their value or regarding them as investments, now see the grubby hand of the tax man hovering over our pride and joy. What deductions we could invoke over here I do not know (remember that I am no expert on this) but I suspect that they are very few. I have been hoping to provoke some of our more financially competent members to make a contribution to this discussion by this and some of what I have written before. My guess, and I emphasize guess, is that a Trust or Charitable Trust to take ownership of the bikes would be a way forward. What was once a tax to try to prevent the landed gentry from owning the whole of the UK has now become a burden up normal working class or middle class people and following the fuss made by certain people recently the tax man is now aware that Vincents used for transport and pleasure can be regarded in the same way as the most empty and vacuous of financial investments.