From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

The Labour government has announced a significant climbdown on its policy of inheritance tax for farmers following a major backlash. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) ...

Government proposals to tax inherited farmland have been watered down, with the planned threshold increasing from £1m to £2.5m. The climbdown follows months of protests by farmers and concern from ...

The largest generational wealth transfer in Canadian history is upon us, with baby boomer parents expected to pass $1 trillion in assets to their gen-X and millennial children by 2026. Yet despite ...

The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Nick Reiner is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Hollywood actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner.

Inherited assets from your loved one, whether in the form of cash, stocks or real estate, can be subject to inheritance taxes, depending on your relationship and inheritance value. While most states ...

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

13:19, Thu, Nov 27, 2025 Updated: 13:34, Thu, Nov 27, 2025 A special new rule to allow farmers to pass on up to £3m without paying a penny of Inheritance Tax on it has been unveiled by Chancellor ...