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Inheritance tax allowances have been frozen for years, steadily eroding their value and dragging more families into the tax net. The annual £3,000 tax-free gifting allowance hasn’t changed since 1981, ...

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The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Inheritance tax is the gift that keeps on giving to the chancellor but for families mourning loved ones it can be a complicated minefield to get right at an already difficult time, with an avalanche ...

There are few parts of the law quite as fraught as succession. As the great wealth transfer gets under way, wrangling about who gets what is tearing families apart Get our breaking news email, free ...

09:32, Mon, Feb 9, 2026 Updated: 09:33, Mon, Feb 9, 2026 Millions of families are being dragged into the inheritance tax net as frozen thresholds collide with soaring house prices. But parents can ...

Scan the headlines and you might think that Western economies are on the verge of an ‘inheritance explosion’. Popular narratives warn of a looming ‘great wealth transfer’ as baby boomers pass down ...