How can you pay less UK inheritance tax?
Inheritance tax costs Britons billions of pounds every year yet a significant part of this can be avoided. With property prices rising every year, more and more people will be liable to pay inheritance tax.
Inheritance tax costs Britons billions of pounds every year yet a significant part of this can be avoided. With property prices rising every year, more and more people will be liable to pay inheritance tax.
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The UK Government’s levy on estates of the deceased may seem inevitable, but there are ways to reduce or even prevent your loved ones having to pay UK inheritance tax (IHT) on what you leave them.
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