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Inheritance

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I ensure my business runs smoothly after my death?

    I would like to pass my business to my eldest son

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    UK tax
    UK’s largest estates pay an average of £9mn in inheritance tax

    Wealthiest estates face prospect of higher rates of liability following the Budget

  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Will my loved ones have to pay tax on my pension when I die?

    I’m worried about the new rules that mean my pension is subject to inheritance tax

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Can my brother and I resolve our financial dispute out of court?

    We are currently fighting over our late mother’s will - and it’s getting nasty between us

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    FT WealthClare Maurice
    Not planning for death can be an expensive business

    Where there’s no will there’s no way to avoid causing postmortem trouble

    A conceptual graphic showing multiple hands tearing a legal or official document
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    UK wealth managers warn Reeves over plan to levy inheritance tax on pensions

    AJ Bell boss tells chancellor that ‘complex and costly’ Budget proposal will ‘undermine’ retirement savings system

    A pedestrian holding an umbrella walks in the rain across Westminster Bridge in London with the Houses of Parliament in the background
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    UK tax
    Brits retiring abroad could avoid UK inheritance tax under new loophole

    Budget measure allows anyone staying abroad for 10 years to avoid death duties on global wealth

    Elderly British tourists relaxing on the beach in Spain
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    The Big Question
    The Big Question: Should farmers have to pay inheritance tax?

    The government says the levy targets landowners seeking to shelter wealth, but food producers say it will hit them hard

    FT montage of a tractor and ‘No farmers, No food’ protest banners with a large question mark between them
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Quick fixes to lower your inheritance tax liability

    Act before pension pots are swept up by the tax net

    Illustration of an elderly woman and her house inside an hourglass
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Do I need inheritance tax insurance?

    Budget changes prompt wave of interest in life cover to avoid families scrambling to pay tax bills

    Illustration of a hand gripping an hourglass with money falling out the bottom
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    UK tax
    UK landed estates warn Budget tax changes will ‘kill off’ business

    Owners of historic houses hit out at changes to inheritance tax and national insurance

    Knowsley Hall
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    The great post-Budget pensions rethink

    But there are several tools you can use to cut an IHT bill

    Commuters walk along the concourse at London Waterloo station
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Tom Bradshaw
    British farmers have nothing left to give

    The Budget’s new IHT measures demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of how our agriculture works

    Hills and farmland in rural mid Wales.
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Budget Q&A: Readers’ questions answered

    Experts respond to queries about measures announced in the autumn Budget

  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    News in-depthUK agriculture
    Farmers lose sleep over Budget inheritance tax crackdown

    Reforms will put emphasis on early succession planning for agricultural estates

    Nick Hutton
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Autumn Budget 2024: where will you feel the pinch?

    FT reporters review this week’s £40bn tax-raising measures

    An illustration of Rachel Reeves surrounded by pound notes in the shape of autumn leaves
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Meet ‘Generation Windfall’: coming to an estate agent near you

    Fears of tax rises at the Budget have sent the Bank of Mum and Dad into overdrive

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Family businesses
    Inheritance tax changes sound ‘death knell’ for family businesses, say owners

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first Budget has caused alarm

    Cafes and shops on Warwick Street in Worthing, West Sussex
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    UK savings plans overhauled with planned pension tax changes

    Advisers race to rethink approach after Rachel Reeves pledges to bring retirement pots under inheritance levy regime

    A photo illustratuon showing the dictionary definition of pension fund and British pound coins
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Closure of UK inheritance tax ‘loophole’ to penalise estates of wealthy pensioners

    Experts say big tax bills could result from Rachel Reeves’ move in the Budget

    Commuters walk during the morning rush hour near the Bank of England in the City of London
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Farmers with assets over £1mn hit by inheritance tax reforms

    Industry counters that Budget cap will hammer agricultural businesses that are asset-rich but cash-poor

    Tractor ploughing in Northants
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Inheritance tax reforms to hit business owners and farmers

    Tax relief to be capped on assets worth more than £1mn

    Farm buildings in Wiltshire
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Will investors live to regret their pre-Budget actions?

    Gains may have been locked in too soon in anticipation of a bigger CGT increase

    Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Can I make my out-of-work ex-husband pay maintenance?

    He lost his job midway through our divorce and has stopped paying money to me and our child

  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    House & Home
    The downsizing shake-up

    Homeowners rattling around in large houses have been reluctant to move to somewhere smaller, but with a changing landscape and new Labour tax policies — notably inheritance — on the horizon, the mood is changing

    An illustration of a transparent cocktail shaker being vigorously shaken. There are items inside, such as two small houses and several ice cubes labelled with various financial terms and symbols
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