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What will my family receive?

What your estate is worth at the age you plan to, the inheritance tax on it under the rules as they will stand — pensions included from April 2027 — and what your family actually receives after tax. Gifts, the seven-year clocks, the £2m taper on the home allowance and a couple's two deaths are all in the same cash-flow, not a separate calculator.

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What will my family receive? — Money Horizon
Chapters on this page
1

How the bill is worked out

The estate less the allowances, then the tax; the bill at every age; the bill weighted by when you might die.

2

The sums, line by line

Every figure built up step by step, with what each lever contributes.

3

The £2m taper on the home allowance

When the residence nil-rate band starts to shrink and what it costs.

4

Gifts and the 7-year clocks

Every gift, its taper, when it leaves the estate; the safe amount to give each year without hurting the plan.

5

Two deaths and the survivor

Spouse exemption, transferred bands and the survivor's income, for couples.

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