You have only to peruse the personal finance pages of this newspaper to realise how deeply the middle-class obsession with inheritance runs. Readers’ queries range from the bizarre to the mundane.

The "death tax" is one of the most emotive and controversial levies, but what would its abolition mean for inequality? "Nothing is certain except death and taxes," American statesman Benjamin Franklin ...

The major unanswered question about New Labour and the third way is in whose interest they intended to govern. There can be no such doubt about David Cameron's Conservatives. Their inheritance tax ...

Fewer than one in 20 estates were liable for inheritance tax in 2022, with just 4.62% of deaths resulting in an inheritance large enough to trigger a tax bill. However, experts are raising the alarm ...

In 2007, George Osborne announced the “death knell for death taxes” when he promised that only millionaires would pay inheritance tax. But more than a decade after the former Chancellor’s pledge, this ...