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 ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned that her plan to hike inheritance tax risks punishing middle-class homeowners as the backlash against her Budget intensified. Ms Reeves is considering an ...

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 ...