The Australian government could soon tax your inheritance if a think tank's proposal is adopted. The Australia Institute put forward three concepts to help the country rake in more revenue without ...

Major changes to Inheritance Tax rules mean your pension pots could be raided even if you haven't reached retirement age yet. Under current rules, there is no Inheritance Tax to pay if you inherit a ...

A LABOUR plot to raise inheritance tax has been branded “politics of envy”. The move would hit strivers who had “worked hard, saved responsibly, and hope to leave something behind”, senior Tory Mel ...

Some observers of the daunting UK fiscal scene have a rather imaginative view of what constitutes a tax loophole, let alone one that could easily be closed off. Anne Instone (Letters, August 18) ...

The Treasury will need to take in more than £50bn in new taxes at the next Budget in the Autumn to avoid breaking the government’s fiscal rules. Rachel Reeves is exploring measures to extract more ...

It’s a rare achievement for a tax to be incurred by just a fraction of people but to be widely detested. Inheritance tax pulls that trick off. Despite it only currently affecting about one in 20 ...

People who die young will have inheritance tax levied on pension savings they never had a chance to spend under changes pending in April 2027. Taxing pensions of anyone who dies before 55 - the ...

The parents have four children — three sons and a daughter, who was the youngest. All of them have their own families, are financially secure and live in big cities. The father stays in their hometown ...

Britain’s most hated tax could be turbo-charged as Rachel Reeves mulls a further death duty raid to plug a £50bn fiscal black hole. The Chancellor has already announced that she will make private ...

To be able to explain some of the issues around pensions and IHT To be able to identify some ways to mitigate the challenges around pensions and IHT To be able to explain the use of loan and gift ...