A commonly recommended way to reduce inheritance tax (IHT) is to make lifetime gifts. In simple terms, if you survive for seven years after the gift is given, it’s usually excluded from your estate ...

Benjamin Franklin referred to death and taxes as "the only certainties in life." And the inheritance tax touches on both. It's a levy on money, property or other assets a person leaves to others after ...

Boomers are leaving behind decades of accumulated clutter for their heirs to manage Charlotte Lytton is a freelance journalist who has worked in newsrooms from London to New York. She began writing ...

For the first time, landowners prepare to burden their families with multimillion-pound death duties Noah Eastwood is a money reporter. He has previously written for The Times, Daily Mail, The i Paper ...

Inheritance tax receipts have hit a new annual high in 2025/26, as more families fall into the death tax trap. How can you avoid leaving your family with a large tax bill?