Inheritance tax
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Just £20 a year extra in the pockets of those on basic rate, while other tax changes will benefit Isa savers and some in 40% band
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Chancellor dashed hopes of those hoping for increase from £325,000 rate and focused on exempting emergency workers
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Ask the experts: homebuying I want my dad to move in with us but my sister is worried about the finances
Property advice: My sister has queries about me receiving an inheritance early, as well as the tax implications and legal aspect of the arrangements
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Arts Council England confirms settlement for Willy Lott’s House from the Stour permanently allocated to Ashmolean in Oxford
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Only the ‘very wealthy’ should pay, prime minister says in Q&A at Age UK
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Ask the experts: homebuying Are we liable for capital gains and inheritance tax on a gift to our mum?
Property advice: The equity release adviser said we would be, but I don’t want to hold up the sale of the house
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The laws dividing your assets if you don’t have a will change on 1 October – but common-law partners still get nothing. Jill Papworth and Patrick Collinson report on the winners and losers
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My husband switched our joint tenancy and now I'm not sure if I would have to sell the house if he died before me
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Polly Toynbee: To reduce our soaring inequality we must treat inherited wealth like ordinary taxed income and end all the wheezes
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Solicitors organisation warns that too much valuable, intellectual property is in danger of being lost when we die
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Institute for Fiscal Studies says raising threshold to £1m will bring in very little money and David Cameron should abolish tax
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James Butler: Inheritance, which rewards the wealthy for doing nothing, is once again becoming a key route to riches – just as it was in the Victorian era
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Letters: Labour desperately needs to break out of the seminar rooms and into the public consciousness
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The prime minister has said inheritance tax should only be paid by the rich. What do you think?
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PM says a Tory-led government could revive abandoned 2007 pledge to raise threshold from £325,000 to £1m
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Ask the experts: homebuying How will capital gains and inheritance tax affect buying my dad's house?
Property advice: He's selling his £300,000 house to us at a discount, and we are confused about the tax implications
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Property advice My sister says anything our parents give me could attract inheritance tax and capital gains tax
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Ortiz's bashed piano, Darwin papers and a Rothko among 30 new treasures open to public view under AiL scheme
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Taxpayers should not be forking out for care costs just so adult children can inherit a mini-jackpot when their parents die
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Comment A national register of wills would help make a complicated process easier after someone dies
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A guide to what steps need to be taken after the death of a family member
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As more families fall within the tax net, there are ways to legally reduce the amount you must pay
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I want to lend my son some money to buy a house, which he must repay over a term like it was a mortgage
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6 April ushers in the new tax year – we round up the range of changes being introduced by the government
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Tax allowances, rates and reliefs for the 2013/14 financial year are outlined in the TaxFax booklet, put together by accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg
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Ask the experts: homebuying Should we set up a family income trust to avoid probate and inheritance tax?
There are obvious moral issues, but we also want to provide for our children -
George Osborne introduced a £2,000 employment allowance, which allows a third of all employers paying 'no jobs tax at all'
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She is giving her home to my brothers and I, but we aren't sure if it will impact on her tax position or benefits
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The exact amount you inherit should help you determine what to do with it and how much tax you can expect to pay
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From tax positions to property rights, there are more issues to consider than you may have imagined when tying the knot
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Being an executor is a time-consuming process, which involves gathering assets, selling property and clearing debts
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Health secretary says 'challenging' economic times behind the £75,000 figure as research reveals 120,000 people will lose out
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Polly Toynbee: His attempt at reform fails both economically and politically. Funded by inheritance tax, not even the Tory core supports it
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Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Jeremy Hunt's statement on adult social care
This obsession with inheritance shows how much we’ve lost confidence in the future