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Inheritance tax is a deeply unpopular levy charged on your estate when you die – but there are some tax-free allowances that can reduce what you owe up to a certain threshold. While the main allowance ...

This could result in (or add to) your estate being charged inheritance tax. In most cases this will be paid from your estate — reducing what your beneficiaries receive — but if the estate can't pay, ...

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Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fewer farmers will start paying inheritance tax from April after UK ministers were forced into a £130mn climbdown by a ...

Trusts are surging in popularity as a way to avoid inheritance tax, according to new government figures and financial ...

13:19, Thu, Nov 27, 2025 Updated: 13:34, Thu, Nov 27, 2025 A special new rule to allow farmers to pass on up to £3m without paying a penny of Inheritance Tax on it has been unveiled by Chancellor ...

Government plans to slap inheritance taxon pensions are already galvanising families into action to protect estates before ...