PJRay

If the government ever wanted to get their hands on your gold, there are much easier ways of going about it than kicking down doors at 6 a.m. to ransack a house because of some receipt from HGM a decade ago.
Why go to all that difficulty and expense when you could make the sale of gold illegal... unless the buyer is the government. That'd hoover most of it up. Sure you could 'stick it to the man' by burying your stash in the woods, but you nor your kids would ever be able to realise its value unless you sold it on a gold black market. Then the government could go after the black market instead. That'd be more effective than chasing the ghosts of some old receipt, less messy than interrogation and a hell of a lot cheaper than locking people up.
That's the way I'd do it. 😈

If that day ever came you could recount the tale of your unfortunate boating accident. Such a sad story.

If that day ever came you could recount the tale of your unfortunate boating accident. Such a sad story.

This has already been said but I will say it again - If the conditions arrive in this reality that government are coming to your address for your £2500 of gold that will be the least of your problems.... because you will have also lost your boat in an unfortunate accident. Such a sad story. 
Honestly there isn't an issue here. Buy the gold with ID, pay with debit card whatever, get it delivered - once your currency is parted for the gold, the gold is 'gone' from the system. No one knows what you did with it, there are no digital records of where you hid/spent/melted your gold. You could have used it to pay for goods and services, settled gambling debts, buried it and forgotten where you put it, etc. This is a non issue. A total non issue. Just buy your gold like everyone else. And if/when the time comes that they confiscate it.... annnnd its gone!
 

If that day ever came you could recount the tale of your unfortunate boating accident. Such a sad story.

If that day ever came you could recount the tale of your unfortunate boating accident. Such a sad story.

If that day ever came you could recount the tale of your unfortunate boating accident. Such a sad story.

If that day ever came you could recount the tale of your unfortunate boating accident. Such a sad story.

Please keep the thread on topic, previous posts moved to:
 

Costco in Wembley price for these bars today. 

At what time does he start talking about gold?

Some silver added to stack over the weekend..   Thanks to @PJRay

Congratulations @Liam84

Nice one @AgNO3

Well played @SmallSilverStacker