Recent analysis by Prudential has revealed that the total amount of inheritance tax paid in the 2012-13 tax year (the latest publicly available data) reached £3.05 billion, which is an increase of 15% on the £2.65 billion total paid in the previous tax year.
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With an increasing demand for care services, a Which? investigation has found that over the last five years some local authorities in England and Wales have been restricting home care and increasing costs above inflation, leading to a widening postcode lottery in care costs.
Building more retirement properties would free up more than three million homes, offering a lifeline to families desperate to move up the housing ladder, finds a new Demos report.
A recent survey conducted by KPMG has found that only 12% of patients are ‘very confident’ that the NHS will be able to meet their long-term health care needs.
Almost 1.3 million older people are devoting their retirement to caring for ill partners or their own ageing parents.