Inheritance tax (IHT) receipts jumped to a total of £6.6 billion through the first nine months of the current 2025/26 tax year, meaning more families are falling into the trap of giving away part of ...

U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fewer farmers will start paying inheritance tax from April after UK ministers were forced into a £130mn climbdown by a ...

You've heard it your whole life: "You're overreacting." "Why are you so emotional?" Maybe you've internalized this chorus so deeply that you now tell yourself these things, all while feeling like ...

In photographer Catherine Opie’s intimate series of images from inside Elizabeth Taylor’s home, one holds unexpected wisdom for jewelry collectors. A stack of boxes —mostly, it appears, for necklaces ...

Switzerland, long a haven for the ultra-rich, voted to reject a hefty tax on large inheritances on Sunday. But the debate around it shook the country's affluent residents, an expert told CNBC before ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

My parent recently passed away before retiring. I have inherited a Roth IRA account that must be paid out within 10 years. This is more money than I can conceive of. It’s 30 percent more than I would ...

Lionsgate has been a force in bringing young adult hits to life, from The Hunger Games to The Twilight Saga. Now, as both franchises are gearing up for new installments on both the big and small ...

I just learned that I’m inheriting a significant amount of property from the last person I would have expected this from. I had a brief marriage to a much older man when I was in my 20s. He basically ...

For most people, the federal estate tax is nothing to worry about. In 2025, only individuals with estates above $13.99 million and married couples with estates of more than $27.98 million will be ...

The Inheritance (as in the title of the same award-winning epic play now being presented in a moving and masterly production at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre) is the legacy that must be respected, ...