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For many disabled people, and for those who support them, the ability to build up savings can be critical.

Heritage estates do not fit neatly into the UK’s inheritance tax framework. They are not simply investment portfolios to be traded or businesses to be broken up.

There have been numerous tribunals concerning mixed-use stamp duty land tax, many reflecting HMRC’s resistance to marginal claims.

This article concludes our series on the inheritance tax reforms introduced by Finance Act 2025, turning to one of the areas most significantly affected by the shift to a residence-based regime

At the 2024 Budget, the government announced that from 6 April 2027 inheritance tax would be extended to cover most pension death benefits.

Just before Christmas, the government announced that, with effect from 6 April 2026, agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) would be capped – referred to in the d

As many readers will be aware, a Follower Notice (FN) can be given where the ‘principles or reasoning‘ in a relevant judicial ruling would, if applied to the taxpayer’s chosen arrangements, deny hi

The provisions dealing with cleansing mixed funds contained in an offshore bank account are set out in Finance (No.2) Act 2017 Schedule 8 Part 4.

My father always used to greet Spring with a little nonsense ditty that started ‘Spring has sprung, the grass is riz…’.

It has been three years since the over 55’s were handed new freedoms to allow them to spend up to 100pc of their pension fund as they choose.