Dear Richard, My mother died in late 2017 and probate was granted early in 2018. My brother, sister, and myself were executors and all received a third…

It will cost families an extra £1bn and result in total receipts from the death tax soaring to an all-time high of £6.6bn by 2026. The threshold…

The Treasury has raked in an extra £700m from inheritance tax since last April after the housing market boom and Rishi Sunak’s decision to freeze thresholds lifted…

Families work hard to help the next generation become homeowners and unnecessarily shelling out to the taxman can sour the milestone.  In the first three instalments of…

The so-called “Bank of Mum and Dad” helped half of all first-time buyers onto the property ladder last year, with parents gifting or loaning an average of…

Inheritance tax is deeply unpopular and many see it as unfair. Avoiding the death duty is a priority for many people as they grow older. But while…

Sky-high inheritance tax bills catch out countless families every year and thousands more will face surprise charges in future because tax bands have been frozen. Planning ahead…

We would all like to help our family get on to the property ladder – preferably without unnecessarily shelling out to the taxman.  In the first three…

2. Downsize and give your children the cash  Following Ronnie Corbett’s death at the end of March 2016, it emerged that he had sold his family home…