U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

Government proposals to tax inherited farmland have been watered down, with the planned threshold increasing from £1m to £2.5m. The climbdown follows months of protests by farmers and concern from ...

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 ...

In a post on Reddit a woman explained that her grandfather left her about $30,000 Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is expanding its young adult content, optioning Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ bestselling book series The Inheritance Games for development as a scripted series. The project ...

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 ...

Grieving the loss of a loved one is hard enough, and families are lucky if they're able to prepare in advance for the worst. What most families aren't prepared for, though, are the predatory calls and ...

A Missouri man is behind bars after authorities say he allegedly beat his mother to death with a gardening tool after demanding his inheritance. Derrick Alling, 39, is facing first-degree murder and ...

A lesser-known inheritance tax loophole is allowing families to save significantly on their IHT bills – and financial advisers say they are using it with more clients than ever since chancellor Rachel ...

I have a parent who passed many years ago when I was still in college. I grew up in what I would call an upper-middle class household. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized I did in fact grow up in ...

For the first time, St. Paul is offering funds to descendants of the West Side Flats, a frequently flooded neighborhood that was bulldozed in the 1960s to make way for a floodwall and an industrial ...

There are two entirely reasonable responses to this. One is to worry about the new inheritocracy harming society: how it could corrode incentives to work, say, or widen inequality and distort the ...