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Inheritance

  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Can I contest my share of our late mother’s estate?

    I believe my brother persuaded our mother to reduce my inheritance

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    FT WealthClare Maurice
    Sometimes the best succession plan is . . . doing nothing

    Putting a business into trust might make tax sense, but entrepreneurs find it hard to relinquish control

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  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I ensure our business continues after I die?

    I’m worried my siblings will have to sell up to fund the inheritance tax

  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement: what the next six months has in store for your money

    Where will the cards fall before the autumn Budget?

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Should I help my daughter pay for her son’s school fees?

    I’m worried about how to structure payments fairly as I also have other children.

  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    How to gift your way to a lower inheritance tax bill

    As IHT bills hit a record high, financial planners recommend consumers plan before the rules change from 2027

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  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    Nathan Valbonesi
    Who inherits? A fraught question for those with no children

    It’s an existential debate and it can lead to a dark place

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  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Is my ex-wife entitled to half my British army pension?

    I served for 15 years before we got married — can this be taken into account?

  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Bonus season: how does yours measure up?

    Our annual survey of FT readers shows bonus payouts are on the rise, but so too are tax concerns and school fees

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  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Can I sell my ailing father’s Spanish home?

    We have a lasting power of attorney set up, but will it be valid abroad?

  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    UK agriculture
    UK Treasury rejects farmers’ inheritance tax compromise

    Government will not back down on reforms outlined in Budget, industry told during meeting with officials

    A farmers’ protest causes gridlock in central London last week
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Can I cut my tax liabilities by leaving my assets to the nation?

    I am keen to still use the items up to my death if possible

  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
    UK tax
    Advisers urge wealthy Britons to consider life assurance to reduce IHT

    Experts expect the arrangement to increase in popularity as ministers expand the scope of inheritance tax

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  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    Ask Shrimsley: why worry about inheritance tax if I’m dead?

    Attitudes to this subject are still a political dividing line

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  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    What should my son do with his Child Trust Fund savings?

    He wants to invest the money but doesn’t know where to start

  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Will you spend your pension before Rachel Reeves does?

    The £40bn impact of the inheritance tax shake-up will prompt more families to spend or gift the money

  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    Pensions industry
    UK pensions tax changes to bring in ‘more than £40bn’ before 2045

    Longer-term estimates predict the measures could bring in £3bn a year by 2043

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  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Would you leave your children out of your will?

    Trillions of pounds will be handed down in coming decades as part of the Great Wealth Transfer — but some parents are opting out

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Can I continue to invest in my future wife’s company?

    I’m worried that being married to the owner will affect my eligibility to invest via SEIS

  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    UK tax
    Wealthy Britons gift more money over inheritance tax fears

    Concern grows over what Rachel Reeves ‘will target next’ to shore up the government’s finances

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  • Saturday, 25 January, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Most Gen Z say Bank of Mum and Dad gifts come ‘with strings attached’

    Parents often insist on cohabitation agreements in exchange for help with house buying

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  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Clare Munro
    ‘Will I be caught in a 76% inheritance tax trap?’

    The questions families are asking their advisers, following the IHT shake-up

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  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    If your partner died first, could you manage money solo?

    Looming tax changes stress the importance of financial planning

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Personal pensions
    Applying UK inheritance tax to pensions ‘risks delays and higher costs’

    Advisers call for rethink of how Treasury imposes planned extension of IHT to retirement funds

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  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    ExplainerPersonal Finance
    Small businesses: is an employee ownership trust right for you?

    EOTs surge in popularity following Budget tax changes

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