You might think it’s only the elite who should bother with trust funds for their heirs, but as more families are drawn into the inheritance tax net every year, trusts are becoming increasingly useful ...

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

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Inheritance tax implications As a grandparent, you can use trusts to remove assets from your estate, and therefore outside the scope of inheritance tax. When you put money into a bare trust, it counts ...