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Death is one of those things that either slowly creeps up on us or comes suddenly when we least expect it. Few of us plan on doing it and even fewer make any plans like making a Will to reduce inheritance tax or avoid paying IHT. If you are reading this, you are one of the lucky ones who is still bucking the system, but death will catch up with you along with the Inheritance Tax bill unless you do something about it.

The inheritance tax bill can be avoided, scientists are still working on the death problem but at least most of us are living longer.

REDUCE INHERITANCE TAX

Every year, thousands of people die without having made a will. It is one of those things that people don't want to think about; believe that their children or wife will automatically inherit their estate or just never get around to doing.

As a result, they miss out on the opportunity to make sure that their money and property are left to the right people and not the tax man (gawd bless his soul). They therefore lose the chance to say who will be the legal guardians for any young children they may have, and they may end up leaving their heirs and other would be beneficiaries with a large inheritance tax bill that could have easily been avoided.

This Inheritance Tax website has been designed to provide you with essential information on making a will and avoiding or minimising inheritance tax problems.

Inheritance tax is a voluntary tax. You don't have to pay as much as the government asks if you don't want to and as you have spent your life paying tax, why pay more when you are dead?

MAKE A WILL

Our service puts you in touch with expert will-writers and inheritance tax planning specialists throughout the UK in order to try to make sure that an experienced will-writing and estate planning service is jus a couple of clicks away.

Make a Will.

If you have yet to write a Will, or if it is a while since you last reviewed your Will, then you really should talk to an expert and get things sorted out properly sooner rather than later. Someone dies in the UK every 37 seconds (and he is getting fed up with it). No-one likes to think too much about death, but it will happen to all of us eventually, and you are never too young to make a will (as long as you are over 18).

AVOID IHT

Inheritance tax used to be called Death Duties. Then some bright government spark, (well not so bright actually because they are all a bit dim) decided that taxing someone who was dead was a bit unfair and decided to rename it Inheritance Tax and go after the bereaved.

You can imagine them sitting round the cabinet table saying "It's a bit unfair taxing someone because they have been foolish enough to die; let's go after the bereaved relatives whilst they are most vulnerable, especially if the deceased has been stupid enough not to have made a will."

As Benjamin Franklin so rightly said, "There are only two certainties in life: death and taxes". We can't help you avoid death, but we can help you reduce the possibility of taxes after death with the help of the inheritance planning services that are offered by the estate planning consultants that we work with.

To find out more about how inheritance tax can be reduced or avoided altogether, please see our pages about inheritance tax and inheritance tax planning.

With a little forethought and planning you can ensure that your family don't have to deal with the extra problems that dieing intestate causes by not making a will.

Or, to arrange a free no-obligation chat with an inheritance tax specialist, please complete our simple enquiry form and we will get someone to contact you.