Answering a question about pension pots being passed on when someone dies

Annuities are popular, and rates are good — but do shop around, advises Paul Lewis

The clock is ticking. Having announced in last year’s Budget that private pension savings will fall within the inheritance-tax (IHT) net from April 2027 onwards, the government has just published more

What are wealth taxes? Taxes that make you pay a levy based on your assets – typically your net wealth – rather than your income from work. Such taxes used to be far more common globally than they are

Issue of the week: trouble in the gilt ...

Seventy-one per cent of people admit they don’t understand how IHT works. Here’s the low-down