Exploding the myth about Inheritance Tax

What is the most unpopular tax in the UK? Polls suggest the answer is inheritance tax. But I wonder why. Sometimes our perception is not borne out by the facts. Did you know that only about 4% of estates are actually liable to pay it? And that means 96% are exempt, for various reasons. Generally…

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How to Minimise Inheritance Tax

Giving it all away, as The Who’s frontman Roger Daltrey sang in 1973, is one way to stop your estate being clobbered by the taxman. Not surprisingly, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are wise to that ruse and have rules in place to ensure the flow of inheritance tax they receive is not reduced to…

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