Imagine your family’s peace of mind when they see an estate plan that reflects your values, your vision, and your deep care for their future. Take some time to consider: what is a good inheritance? By ...

An inheritance can add to your finances, but taxes may reduce the amount that reaches you. Some states tax beneficiaries directly, while separate estate taxes may apply before assets are distributed.

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 ...

Question: “I am 66 years old. I never had a financial adviser until my sister left me an inheritance eight years ago. In that time, the first adviser changed firms three times before going out on his ...

Government plans to slap inheritance tax on pensions are already galvanising families into action to protect estates before rules change in just over a year's time. These kick in from April 2027, but ...

Heather Rogers, founder and owner of Aston Accountancy, is This is Money's resident tax expert. She has fielded questions about accidental landlords, setting up a trust for a vulnerable adult, and ...

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...

To make the inheritance process simpler, the government has withdrawn the mandatory clause to probate a Will. A validly executed Will can now be acted upon directly by heirs and institutions such as ...

Once a person has addressed the emotional questions around what to do with the inheritance, I can begin to create a custom financial action plan. Educating people about their new wealth is part of ...

Labour has just completed another U-turn. It has partially backed down over imposing inheritance tax on farms. In trying to grab a small amount of extra tax revenue, it has alienated many in the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

What if you'd invested in Oracle (ORCL) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to ORCL for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today? With that in mind, ...