Inheritance

The Conservatives are said to be discussing scrapping inheritance tax in a bid to win over voters at the next election.What is the tax, how much do people pay - and who are the Tories hoping to win over if they axe it? What is…

<!-- -->Ebrahim Raisi said the West was "acting against inheritance and culture of nations".Kampala, Uganda: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday launched into a condemnation of Western attitudes on homosexuality during a…

LONDON: Through inheritance, royal estates and shrewd investing while a prince, Charles IIIwill be crowned on May 6 with a considerable fortune to his name.Queen Elizabeth II bequeathed her son an estimated £360 million ($448 million) upon…

In practice, an inheritance tax can end up a cat-and-mouse game. The ultra-rich can easily avoid inheritance tax through tax planning, for example by gifting properties to the next generation during their lifetime.  As a result, the…

Aditi Anand and Susan Dias want to get married in India, and they’re willing to fight for it.For more than a decade, the couple put in the hard work of building a life together. They bought a house, adopted a child and cofounded companies.…

Billionaire Bill Gates, in a 2019 interview, supported bringing back a regulation in the US to require the super-rich to pay a 55 per cent tax when they inherit their family fortune. Proponents of an inheritance or estate tax say it…

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study from Wei Shang of Chinese PLA General Hospital,…

D-keine | E+ | Getty ImagesMoney, for all the opportunities it affords, can be a major source of stress and anxiety if you're not used to having it.Coming into sudden wealth, whether via inheritance, a career windfall or luck in the…

Soha Ali Khan gave a witty answer when asked about the kind of conversations she has with her husband Kunal Kemmu, brother Saif Ali Khan and sister-in-law Kareena Kapoor when they get together for dinner. She joked that they discuss…

In December, while the world's attention was on the emergence of the omicron coronavirus variant, the German Institute for Economic Research revived a centuries-old idea to help tackle wealth inequality. Universal Basic Inheritance, or …