Illustration of UK succession tax showing a weighing scale with a family home on one side and £325,000 with HMRC coins on the other, symbolising the inheritance tax threshold.

Succession Tax Explained: What It Means for Your Estate

Right, let’s address the elephant in the room straightaway: there’s technically no such thing as “succession tax” in the UK. Not officially, anyway. What we’re actually talking about when someone mentions succession tax is Inheritance Tax (IHT) – though you’ll occasionally hear old-timers refer to it as “death duty,” which sounds properly Victorian but hasn’t been the […]