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Once an estate exceeds the inheritance tax threshold, there is usually tax to pay. In the UK, the inheritance tax threshold is known as the nil rate band. The current inheritance tax threshold – or nil rate band – is £325,000, and it’s scheduled to remain fixed at this amount un...
Also, the value of the inherited estate determines Inheritance Tax liability. If the total value is below £325,000, there’s usually no Inheritance Tax. On the other hand, everything above that threshold is taxed at 40% or at 36% if at least 10% is left to charity. However, there...
Another crucial thing to know about is personal allowances. Each beneficiary has a personal tax-free allowance, meaning they can inherit anything up to that threshold without having to pay taxes. The allowances are set by the beneficiary’s relationship to the deceased. Anything the person inheri...
This is an extraordinary increase: here we have a tax that now stretches much further down the wealth scale than was envisaged, without ever having been subject to reconsideration by Parliament. It has suited the Government to raise the threshold for liability, when it has done, only in line...
In Ireland, in my experience, it is particularly tricky. Though by no means universal, there are many families where older generations seem to feel almost a duty to leave something behind for others even at the cost of their own financial comfort in their later years. We’ve all hea...
Unlike in the UK where inheritance tax is payable by the estate, in Italy it’s payable by each beneficiary individually. Each person has a tax-free personal allowance, and they’ll have to pay tax on anything they inherit above this threshold. The allowance is pretty generous though, especi...