You're the last person in the world to forget about married couples and their families. So why are you suddenly amnesiac about the transferable allowance that you mention in your previous post but on… (View Post)

House is 1.2m alone, so total estate must be something approaching 1.4m if none of the allowance used on the first spouse's death (40% x 400K =160K). So tax rate more like 9%. Edit: it is a curious s… (View Post)

But Mrs T didn't let the councils recycle the income from house sales into more houses. (View Post)

Interesting, thanks. Fairly thin - some strong conditions and exclusions there. But, er, that's not the UK. (View Post)

SF? Really? really? - and the percentage differences aren't that great anyway. So you do need to adjust for numbers asked. (View Post)