Illustration of a golden inheritance tree shedding money into a tax tray, symbolising hereditary tax in the UK.

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 […]