Modest estates saddled with highest effective rates as Labour fashions a two-tier death tax system Mattie is a senior money reporter covering pensions, tax and savings. He was previously an editor at ...

You have only to peruse the personal finance pages of this newspaper to realise how deeply the middle-class obsession with inheritance runs. Readers’ queries range from the bizarre to the mundane.

The debate over inheritance tax—a tax imposed on the transfer of property and assets from a deceased person to their beneficiaries—has refused to die down ever since technocrat-turned-Congress leader ...

Fewer than one in 20 estates were liable for inheritance tax in 2022, with just 4.62% of deaths resulting in an inheritance large enough to trigger a tax bill. However, experts are raising the alarm ...

The "death tax" is one of the most emotive and controversial levies, but what would its abolition mean for inequality? "Nothing is certain except death and taxes," American statesman Benjamin Franklin ...

Family-run businesses and middle-class families would be worse affected by the proposed reintroduction of inheritance tax, said Insap. A think tank has objected to a proposed reintroduction of the ...