To make the inheritance process simpler, the government has withdrawn the mandatory clause to probate a Will. A validly executed Will can now be acted upon directly by heirs and institutions such as ...

The government has U-turned on its plans to launch an inheritance tax raid on farmers. After months of intense backlash and protests in Westminster, Labour has increased the threshold – the point at ...

Noted economist Prabhat Patnaik has flagged India’s sharply rising income and wealth inequality and advocated the introduction of a wealth tax and an inheritance tax to finance a set of ...

Federal prosecutors searching for assets to satisfy an $823,681 debt former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick owes taxpayers moved late Tuesday to seize money from life insurance companies, two months ...

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Jazz” wasn’t scouting locations or collecting ...

Hollywood is giving thanks for “Zootopia 2” and “Wicked: For Good,” two Thanksgiving offerings that kept movie theaters stuffed over the holiday weekend. Disney’s animated sequel “Zootopia 2” towered ...

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...

Paris Jackson received a thrilling sum from her father Michael Jackson’s estate. Months after the 27-year-old filed a petition against law firms in charge of the “Thriller” singer’s wealth over their ...

Brits concerned about leaving a hefty inheritance tax bill behind for loved ones can take advantage of a legal loophole – known as the 7 year inheritance tax rule – that lets them give away as much ...

Some people like to imagine the ideal windfall: A surprise (and tax-free!) inheritance from a distant relative whom you barely remember or never met. It’s much less fun to think about navigating a ...