Is early planning too much to ask?

The changes announced by Gordon Brown in the last Budget have highlighted the growing concern around IHT and the amount of people being caught in the threshold which has failed to rise in line with house prices. Despite also raising the IHT threshold in the Budget, (a prime example of giving with one hand and taking with the other), many in the industry believe it is not enough with Halifax actively calling for a higher threshold as 8% of all owner-occupied homes are currently over the £285,000 limit. And it warns by 2020 this could almost triple to around 4.2 million or 20% of all UK h...