Treasury's 'death tax' plans; the pension gender gap; and the harsh reality of any 'Care ISA' - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …
Watch out - the Treasury plans to rake in billions more from the death tax The inheritance tax (IHT) threshold may have been frozen at £325,000 for almost 10 years but, suggests this Telegraph article, chancellor Philip Hammond's pre-Brexit Budget "offered little grounds for hope" this situation will continue for much longer. The taxman received a record-breaking £5.2bn in IHT receipts in 2017/18 - some £400m up on the previous year - and the Telegraph envisages HM Treasury "already rubbing its hands" as it awaits "year after year of bumper IHT receipts". The Treasury anticipates bring...
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