Tag: Inheritance Tax - Tax Policy Associates

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Aug 15, 2025 Policy

A fair solution to inheritance tax on farms and small businesses

There has been a huge amount of controversy over the inheritance tax changes in last year’s Budget. They raised £500m, but hit some small farms and small businesses unfairly – whilst not stopping much existing inheritance tax avoidance. There’s a new proposal from CenTax which seems to do the impossible: protect small farms and businesses, […]

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Nov 21, 2023 Policy

Is inheritance tax really unpopular? We’ve exclusive new polling evidence

Thanks to WeThink (formerly Omnisis), we’ve conducted some opinion polling on inheritance tax. The polling confirms that inheritance tax really is deeply unpopular, and this isn’t driven by ignorance of how it works. But our polling also suggests that most of the unpopularity is driven by the details, and not the principle, of inheritance tax. […]

Sep 28, 2023 Analysis

An obscure loophole means Rishi Sunak’s family probably wouldn’t benefit from the abolition of inheritance tax. They’re already exempt.

Until we get clear answers, it’s reasonable to assume the Sunaks are using an offshore trust to avoid £100m+ of tax.

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Sep 25, 2023 Analysis

How does UK inheritance tax compare with other countries?

The OECD tax database has data on inheritance tax systems across the world, and we can use that to plot theoretical estate/inheritance tax effective rates in each country. In other words, for estates going from 1x average earnings to 100x average earnings, how much tax does the estate pay, as a % of estate value? […]