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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

Only a quarter (26%) of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) say that an adviser has raised the topic of charitable giving with them in the past, yet two in five believe it is important to discu

There has been another success for HMRC at the First-tier Tax Tribunal in relation to a taxpayer’s domicile status (Shah v HMRC [2023] UK FTT 539 (TC)).

Before the sudden reforms of the inheritance tax rules in March 2006, there was a fundamental distinction between life-interest trusts and discretionary trusts.

There are not very many tools in the inheritance tax planning toolbox.