Inheritance Tax

Are you unsure about what the recent changes to inheritance tax mean? If you jointly own a house worth more than £600,000 and you’re not married the new rules mean that there is now a significant financial reason to get married, unfortunately. There’s a very nicely written guide to the new rules on the Inland Revenue site. It’s in Question and Answer form and the characters of the Questioner and the Answerer are drawn out very nicely by the narrative arc, with some very panicky worries in the middle about losing essential paperwork in fires and robberies.