Strategies for reducing inheritance tax on family property in 2026
Last updated: January 2026 | Reading time: 12 minutes Look, I’ll be blunt: the inheritance tax system is designed to catch the unprepared. Frozen thresholds since 2009. Property prices that’ve gone bonkers. A 40% tax rate that bites harder than a Rottweiler with a grudge. And yet… most families stumble into HMRC’s trap because they […]
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’ […]
Inherent Tax vs Inheritance Tax: What’s the Difference?
Here’s a confession: if you’ve been Googling “inherent tax” in a panic at 2am because someone mentioned it at a dinner party and you nodded along knowingly—you’re not alone. Plot twist? There’s no such thing as inherent tax. But there’s absolutely such a thing as inheritance tax, and that’s what people actually mean when they fumble […]
