You have only to peruse the personal finance pages of this newspaper to realise how deeply the middle-class obsession with inheritance runs. Readers’ queries range from the bizarre to the mundane.

The "death tax" is one of the most emotive and controversial levies, but what would its abolition mean for inequality? "Nothing is certain except death and taxes," American statesman Benjamin Franklin ...

The debate over inheritance tax—a tax imposed on the transfer of property and assets from a deceased person to their beneficiaries—has refused to die down ever since technocrat-turned-Congress leader ...

Modest estates saddled with highest effective rates as Labour fashions a two-tier death tax system Mattie is a senior money reporter covering pensions, tax and ...

Family-run businesses and middle-class families would be worse affected by the proposed reintroduction of inheritance tax, said Insap. A think tank has objected to a proposed reintroduction of the ...