Two elderly sisters have lost their European Court of Human Rights» appeal against
inheritance tax liability.
Then, the loans and accrued interest would be paid out of their estate, thus reducing
their inheritance tax liability.
Those passing on their money get the satisfaction of seeing others benefit and
inheritance tax liabilities may be reduced if the transfer occurs over a longer and well - planned period of time.
Not exact matches
The main important thing to consider regarding
inheritance tax is the
liability of an estate or property to pay
inheritance tax when it will be passed to a successor.
Interest and dividends from the
inheritance will be a
tax liability for him.
The very wealthy are able to minimise their
liability through setting up trusts and investing in
inheritance tax friendly products however those who are comfortable but not incredibly wealthy are often caught by this
tax.
The applicants complained to the European Court of Human Rights, under Art 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention in conjunction with Art 14, that when one of them died, the survivor would face a significant
liability to
inheritance tax, which would not be faced by the survivor of a marriage or a civil partnership.
So Mr Cook — head of Thomson & Bancks» private client department — succeeded in reducing the
liability of his client's estate's to
inheritance tax by transferring her first husband's nil rate band — even though he died in 1942.
Probably the commonest solution is for the will to provide for the children or other beneficiaries to be given «the maximum amount of cash which I can give without incurring any
liability to
Inheritance Tax» (or similar words), ie the NRB, and for the wife or partner to be given the residuary estate — probably including the testator's estate or interest in the matrimonial or quasi-matrimonial home.