Hong Kong’s top court has upheld earlier rulings that favoured subsidised housing benefits and equal inheritance rights for same-sex married couples, in a landmark victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ ...

In September 2023, the top court ruled that the government should provide a framework for recognizing same-sex partnerships.

After six years of legal battles with the Hong Kong government, the city's top court finally ruled that same-sex married ...

A typical family farm would have to put 159% of annual profits into paying the new inheritance tax every year for a decade and could have to sell 20% of their land, according to new analysis.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tens of thousands of British farmers are planning to gather in London on Tuesday to protest against changes ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced last month that defined contribution pension pots will be included in inheritance tax (IHT) calculations from April 2027. The change means an extra 1.5 per cent of ...

The full ramifications of the announcement in the Budget to make pension pots liable for Inheritance Tax (IHT) are only just beginning to emerge. While a majority of people won’t be affected, the ...

Few biologists now doubt that genetical investigation has revealed at any rate the most important categories of hereditary variation ; and the classical 'naturalist' theory-the inheritance of ...

British farmers will stage a “national strike” next week, withholding meat and crops from supermarkets to protest Labour’s new inheritance tax policies. Beginning Sunday, thousands of farmers plan to ...

Photo: Phil Erbacher. Virtually everyone has had the experience of binge-watching a Netflix TV series or is at least familiar with the concept. Watching The Inheritance, by US playwright Matthew López ...

A London School of Economics professor has outlined how inheritance tax relief on farmland has served to simply push up the price of land without improving the returns to active farmers.

My husband died before the age of 75 and I inherited his Sipp which has been transferred to my name. I understand that because he died before 75, I can draw on the pension tax fee. Will this still ...