The largest generational wealth transfer in Canadian history is upon us, with baby boomer parents expected to pass $1 trillion in assets to their gen-X and millennial children by 2026. Yet despite ...

The Labour government has announced a significant climbdown on its policy of inheritance tax for farmers following a major backlash. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) ...

Government proposals to tax inherited farmland have been watered down, with the planned threshold increasing from £1m to £2.5m. The climbdown follows months of protests by farmers and concern from ...

U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

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In a massive Christmas U-turn by Sir Keir Starmer, the government has announced a huge climbdown on inheritance tax on farmers. The tax relief on family farms handed down between families is to ...

Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fewer farmers will start paying inheritance tax from April after UK ministers were forced into a £130mn climbdown by a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

‘Non-dom’ tax status referred to the rules around tax for UK residents whose permanent home or “domicile” (for tax purposes) was outside the UK. Offshore trusts (or non-resident trusts) are trusts ...