Anna Murdock: How school fees could pay for themselves

The gift of education

Jenna Brown
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While the cost of a private education may be prohibitive to many, Anna Murdock explores how wealthy grandparents can using lifetime gifting to benefit the next generation and avoid hefty IHT bills

As we progress through our second lockdown, family objectives are changing. The pandemic has disrupted lives to a point where saving patterns, spending patterns, livelihoods and motivations will have shifted. Childcare lockdown issues and the flaws in the education system have been a well-trodden feature in the media that appears to have blighted the daily lives of many families. As such, there are reports of more people sending their children to private schools as they coped better with remote learning during the first wave of the pandemic. Anxieties over their children "fa...

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