The Obvious Way Sunak Can Fix Inheritance Tax: Merryn S Webb

Will no one think of the tax accountants, lawyers, forestry experts and small-cap stock pickers?

So far, most of the conversation about who might win or lose from the abolition of inheritance tax in the UK (something, it is thought, that Rishi Sunak intends to announce) has focused on those who actually pay it. But there is another group of people who will be just as affected by any change: those who avoid it and those who help them.

IHT in the UK is charged at 40% on the assets your estates hold when you die with a value of more ...