| Human Law Ezine - December 2014 Welcome to this month's edition of the Human Law Ezine, please take a look at my latest blog posts: - How Judges Can Create Christmas Goodwill
As we enter the time of Christmas goodwill, it is perhaps worth reflecting that some of us will not be experiencing such harmony and will be less fortunate. A case in point are the two sets of neighbours recently featured in the press who have spent £500,000 (half a million) on legal fees over a few feet of a muddy ditch.
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- The Myth of the £1 million Inheritance Tax Threshold
We are approaching a general election next year, and as what happened at the last election, the Conservative party will have a manifesto commitment to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1 million.
For clarity, each individual has a new rate band of £325,000 tax-free and if they are married there is the prospect of transferring all of their estate to a spouse inheritance tax-free, with the survivor having a maximum of £650,000 to handover inheritance tax-free.
It may very well be the desire of the current prime minister and chancellor to raise this threshold, but this is simply not going to happen
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