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Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

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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 ...

Thousands of widows in western Kenya face losing their land after their husbands die. In certain ethnic groups, widows are ...

The use of trusts in the UK is growing as they play an increasingly important role in estate and succession planning, ...

To make the inheritance process simpler, the government has withdrawn the mandatory clause to probate a Will.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 will raise the inheritance tax relief threshold for farmers from £1 million to £2.5 million in a climbdown following months of protest. The change to the reforms initially unveiled at ...

While the prime minister focuses on foreign affairs, his deputy Labour leader has a message for those frustrated with his ...

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