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 ...

Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fewer farmers will start paying inheritance tax from April after UK ministers were forced into a £130mn climbdown by a ...

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 ...

Legal experts are weighing in on the fate of Nick Reiner's inheritance, now that he has been formally charged with the murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. According to estate and trusts ...

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 ...

A Massachusetts woman gained two long-lost sisters through a DNA test — then tried to net a fortune when she sued them a month later over a malpractice settlement involving their dad. Carmen Thomas, ...

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 ...

Switzerland, long a haven for the ultra-rich, voted to reject a hefty tax on large inheritances on Sunday. But the debate around it shook the country's affluent residents, an expert told CNBC before ...

Italy's inheritance tax far below that of main partners Higher revenue could be used to help growth, analysts say PM Meloni rules out targeting wealthy Italians Most Italian billionaires are heirs, ...