A barrister has been ordered to pay £200,000 in legal costs after being accused of forging his late mother's signature in an ...

Robert Grierson, who specialises in tax and will disputes, allegedly faked a document handing him half the value of his ...

Progressive taxation means the more you have the more you pay as a proportion of your earnings and assets. The system becomes regressive when this principle is reversed ...

Listening is a difficult skill. Particularly for a government with a huge majority. An inability to listen lay at the heart ...

Analysis has found that the introduction of death duties on the assets of family-owned firms could lead to as many as 125,678 ...

There are more than 100,000 farm holdings in England, covering 22 million acres in total. But the Defra data show just 2,568 ...

Labour MPs are being urged to scrap “vindictive” changes to inheritance tax on farms, as the Tories prepare to bring a vote ...

Around 28,000 of UK estates, or around 4pc, currently pay the hated “death tax” each year. This could rise to 391,000 by the ...

The autumn budget has come as a shock to many farmers who may now face a significant Inheritance Tax bill if they die after the 6th of April ...

Devon NFU deputy chairperson Cathy Case said there was a risk inheritance tax changes would do "irreparable damage to farming ...

Farmers have been dealt another “real blow” as grants to help them clean up the environment have been abruptly paused by ...

Sir Keir Starmer met privately with the leader of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) amid an ongoing row over inheritance tax ...