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Inheritance tax

July 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    The billions Britain needs are at Rachel Reeves’s fingertips, and no fiscal promises need be broken

    Polly Toynbee
  • Rachel Reeves, in a slightly ruffle-topped shirt under a blazer, seated next to a woman and three men at a table in front of a Union Jack flag, a Welsh flag and three paintings on a wooden wall, leans forward a little, laughing

    Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists

  • Close-up pic of her indoors and wearing green jacket

    Rachel Reeves urged to crack down on wealthy tax avoiders

  • UnderCover

    Super-rich being advised how to avoid Labour tax clampdown, undercover investigation suggests

June 2024

  • Keir Starmer, sitting next to Rachel Reeves, gestures while talking to people

    Labour drafts options for wealth taxes to ‘unlock’ funds for public services

    Exclusive: Sources say changes to inheritance tax and capital gains tax are being discussed
  • High angle view photo of positive smiling grandfather lying floor with money millionaire isolated on blue color background<br>2FP026N High angle view photo of positive smiling grandfather lying floor with money millionaire isolated on blue color background

    Pass notes
    Geriatric millionaires: why boomers keep getting wealthier

    The older generation now accounts for half the combined net worth of the US – and in the UK they hold 78% of the UK’s private housing wealth
    • How to reverse austerity? Scrap some of the tax-relief schemes worth £204bn

    • In all this noisy election debate, why is there a conspiracy of silence about Brexit?

      Andrew Rawnsley
    • Rachel Reeves under Labour pressure to raise capital gains tax to revive public services

May 2024

  • Bassim Haidar

    Today in Focus
    Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?

  • Bassim Haidar, sitting down, gesticulating with his hands, dressed in a white shirt

    ‘I am moving – that is it’: tycoon speaks out about the end of non-dom tax status

April 2024

  • Mark Menzies, left, and Rishi Sunak standing in front of a wood-panelled wall

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Tory HQ resists calls to refer Menzies allegations to police – as it happened

    Internal investigation under way but party has not announced that police have been called in

March 2024

  • Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty

    Tory plans to abolish non-dom status riddled with loopholes, Labour says

  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    One simple change could restore faith in local democracy. But nobody is talking about it

    Aditya Chakrabortty

January 2024

  • Keir Starmer.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says Labour will ‘meet fire with fire’ if Tories resort to dirty tactics during election – as it happened

  • Elle Hunt

    With inheritance about to divide millennials into haves and have-nots, solidarity comes at a price

    Elle Hunt

December 2023

  • Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, waves as he leaves 11 Downing Street with his ministerial red box before delivering his budget in March 2023

    The Observer view on abolishing inheritance tax: a handout to the wealthy

  • Houses in south-east London

    Life is good for baby boomers. And Jeremy Hunt plans to make it even better

    Phillip Inman
  • Jeremy Hunt with red budget box

    Why UK chancellor should avoid inheritance tax sugar rush in budget

    Arun Advani
  • Rishi Sunak

    Reports of scrapping inheritance tax in budget ‘just speculation’, says No 10

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