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Scotsman.com Business - Economy - Hurdles to jump if you want lower inheritance taxes: "Hurdles to jump if you want lower inheritance taxes
GORDON J. FORBES

AS EARLY as Gordon Brown's first Budget there were dire predictions that he would overhaul Inheritance Tax (IHT). Budgets came and went with little change, and with only one reference to changes in the thresholds for IHT in the 2006 Budget, it seemed nothing much had changed.

However, through the subsequent Budget notes and the recent publication of the Finance Bill, the devil really was in the detail."