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 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 ...

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 ...

Fewer than one in 20 estates were liable for inheritance tax in 2022, with just 4.62% of deaths resulting in an inheritance large enough to trigger a tax bill. However, experts are raising the alarm ...

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A. Let’s go over how the New Jersey inheritance tax works. The tax is based on the relationship of the beneficiary to the decedent. Class A beneficiaries are excluded from the inheritance tax. These ...