While inheritance disputes can create major rifts within families, they can also prove eye-wateringly expensive.

Few biologists now doubt that genetical investigation has revealed at any rate the most important categories of hereditary variation ; and the classical 'naturalist' theory-the inheritance of ...

Inheritance tax reforms introduced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget are already having a “chilling effect” on farming and rural businesses in Scotland, John Swinney has said. Speaking ahead of an ...

The rules governing the inheritance of an individual retirement account (IRA) when the IRA owner dies are complicated, but at least one aspect is straightforward: Whether a spouse or non-spouse is ...

Now that, as of April 2027, my pension pot will be included in my estate for inheritance tax purposes, is there any advantage for keeping it in a pension plan? Should I instead draw down annually ...

In the week since the Labour government reintroduced inheritance tax for farmers, Ms Hilditch’s phone has been blowing up. She said: “I think people are really worried. On WhatsApp ...

A farmer took his own life to avoid an inheritance tax raid following changes to the rules announced in the Budget last week, his son said. John Charlesworth, 78, was found dead at home in Barnsley, ...

He told The Telegraph that hearing in advance of the Budget about Labour’s plans to end the practice of letting all farmers pass on estates without inheritance tax was the “final straw” for ...

Farmers are threatening to stop spreading sludge on their land in protest at plans to impose inheritance tax on their estates. They are discussing plans for a co-ordinated “sewage strike” in a ...

Ministers have been warned that they face a “militant” backlash from farmers over the so-called tractor tax of imposing inheritance death duties on family farms worth more than £1m.