Planning ahead

Do you feel the general public is now more aware of the need to make inheritance tax provisions? The general public's awareness of inheritance tax and its impact on family wealth has increased significantly over the past 15 years. Additionally, some of the common techniques used to mitigate the impact of the tax have become widely known. This is largely due to press comment, particularly in the personal finance sections of national newspapers. The juxtaposition of double digit house price inflation and modest increases in the inheritance tax nil rate band was a much used, and very effecti...