Ian Cowie says the simplest ways of avoiding inheritance tax are the best — especially when the law keeps changing
If there is one thing worse than paying inheritance tax, it is discovering at the graveside that an expensive IHT-avoidance scheme has proved a waste of money, in addition to what you are going to have to pay HM Revenue & Customs anyway.
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