How to Maximise Your Inheritance Tax Allowance in 2026
Here’s something nobody tells you at dinner parties (because who discusses tax at dinner parties?): roughly 96% of UK estates won’t pay a penny in inheritance tax. Yet the 4% who do fork out an average of £180,000 to HMRC. That’s not pocket change—that’s someone’s house deposit, a comfortable retirement nest egg, or your kids’ […]
What Is Hereditary Tax? Full UK Guide
Here’s something that trips up most people: hereditary tax doesn’t actually exist – at least not in the way you’d think from the name. What we’re really talking about here is inheritance tax, sometimes called death duties by people who remember when that phrase actually meant something official. The confusion? Completely understandable. “Hereditary” sounds like something that passes […]
