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Information on planning your future medical and social care, estate and finances in Spain.
Guidance, forms and calculators for Inheritance Tax. Including how the tax works, valuing an estate, thresholds, reliefs and how to pay.
When you have to pay Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Stamp Duty or Inheritance Tax on money, shares or property you inherit
You do not usually owe any tax on an inheritance at the time you inherit…
You do not usually have to pay Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax immediately…
You do not pay Stamp Duty, Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax immediately if…
You do not usually have to pay any Stamp Duty or tax when you inherit…
Inheritance Tax (IHT) is paid when a person's estate is worth more than £325,000 when they die - exemptions, passing on property. Sometimes known as death duties.
How to pay Inheritance Tax: get a reference number, payment methods, use the deceased's bank account, National Savings and Investments, government stock, yearly instalments.
Value the estate of someone who's died so that you can get probate: work out if tax is due, check how to report the estate's value, complete the correct form.
Information about moving to, living or retiring in Spain – including visas, working, healthcare and driving.
A trust is a way of managing assets (money, investments, land or buildings) for people - types of trust, how they are taxed, where to get help.
Find out if Inheritance Tax is due on assets transferred in or out of a trust and on certain trusts at each 10 year anniversary.
If both the UK and another country charge Inheritance Tax, you could avoid or reclaim the tax through a double taxation convention.
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