Please find below our Investment Market Update as at 30th June 2023.
Our monthly update this time focuses on Inheritance Tax (IHT). We also give a sprinkling of investment market perspective before finishing with perhaps a glimpse of how the UK would be better off if it followed Sweden’s lead.
Here is the agenda:
- The UK’s most disliked tax
- Allowances
- Rising revenues for the government
- How to mitigate inheritance tax… some options
- Market update
- Food inflation falls at last
- Further good news
- Equity markets slip
- China
- Could Sweden be the benchmark?
The UK’s most disliked tax
Inheritance Tax is regularly voted as the most disliked tax in the UK. Essentially, it is a tax potentially payable on death. It can also sometimes be payable on gifts and certain types of trusts but as that is outside of the norm and the scope of a short article, we will focus on the situations that most people will be faced with.
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