{"id":10672,"date":"2013-02-04T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inheritance-tax-how-much-how-you-pay-it-and-how-to-reduce-it\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:40:30","slug":"inheritance-tax-how-much-how-you-pay-it-and-how-to-reduce-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inheritance-tax-how-much-how-you-pay-it-and-how-to-reduce-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance tax \u2013 how much, how you pay it, and how to reduce it"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nInheritance tax (IHT) becomes an issue when someone dies. It is a one-off tax paid on the value of the deceased’s estate above a set threshold \u2013 currently \u00a3325,000.The tax is set at 40% of any value over that threshold, reduced to 36% if more than 10% of the estate is given to charity. To work out how much IHT, if any, needs to be paid, the executors of the estate need to add up the value of all of the assets, then subtract any debts, bills and funeral expenses. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Inheritance tax (IHT) becomes an issue when someone dies. 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