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There are no special rules that apply to arrangements to fund education costs for family members – which is just as well really, when the general settlements legislation applies anyway.

This article concerns a case which considered the Limitation Act 1980, which applies only in England and Wales.

Historically, trusts have been the ‘go to’ for passing wealth between generations as they provide a well-trodden and very flexible path for separating the legal and beneficial owners

Woodlands are currently potentially more profitable than they have been previously, possibly more so than they have been in ‘living memory’.

Attitudes to inheritance tax (IHT) vary hugely. The strong emotions it inspires must, at least partly, be linked to deaths of parents and the value of homes.

Executors of someone UK domiciled whose surviving spouse or civil partner is, or has been, non-domiciled may need to explore the deceased’s financial history for much more than the last seven years

The introduction of Pension Freedoms brought about the widening of the range of potential beneficiaries on death in the form of the beneficiaries’ drawdown, and the removal of any cap on income wit

The British press has been full of headlines on inheritance tax this year, targeting in particular the baby boomer generation who have fortuitously increased their estates over their lifetime, larg

In January 2018, Chancellor Philip Hammond asked the Office of Tax Simplification to review inheritance tax. The key part of his letter said:

There is something about inheritance tax (IHT) which makes it particularly unpopular. Is it because many people worry about the ‘form-filling’ which usually comes at a particularly difficult time?