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Giving and Inheriting

A must-have guide to estate planning and tax liability, featuring information on equity release, lifetime gifts, trusts, costs and inheritance tax to help reduce the tax bill faced by your heirs.

Giving and Inherhiting

£10.99

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Paperback - 224pp

ISBN:978 1 84490 032 9

Book highlights

  • Practical advice for reducing your inheritance tax bill
  • How to use trusts
  • The opportunities, risks and implications of equity release 
  • Advice for people receiving an inheritance 

Inheritance tax (IHT) is becoming a major worry for more and more people but Giving and Inheriting is an essential guide to estate planning and tax liability, offering up-to-the–minute advice from an acknowledged financial expert. 

This essential, practical guide covers taxes on lifetime gifts and residual estates work and what you can do about them; tax-free gifts and ways of reducing your tax liability; charges and costs, with advice on what is appropriate; the ins and outs of gifts – to children and to charity; and the concerns of those receiving an inheritance. Giving and Inheriting will help people reduce the tax bill faced by their heirs and allow many to avoid IHT altogether.

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