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Inheritance Tax Planning

Passing on you hard earned wealth to your loved ones is a priority for many. Inter-generational planning is a complex area, and Path has the expertise to help.

Our independent and whole of market approach to Inheritance Tax (IHT) planning ensures we can consider all options available.

Inheritance Tax can be a largely voluntary tax, provided steps are taken to mitigate it early and in an ordered and planned way.

There are many ways to legitimately reduce or remove a potential Inheritance Tax burden and to protect your family wealth from outside influences.

Our planning process

Understanding your generational planning wishes and the makeup of your estate is the priority.

Thereafter we build your planning strategy, mindful of the need to meet your own cost of lifestyle for however long that may be. We will work with other professionals that you employ, such as your solicitor or accountant.

We will work with you to prioritise your goals and provide you with our independent recommendations.
We will set up our recommendations for you, leaving you free enjoy time with your family and loved ones.
We will ensure your invested assets are aligned with your values.
We will regularly check in with you and provide ongoing advice and guidance.

We are always here to help and will be here to support you. Life is full of surprises and priorities can change. Any plan we put in place for you will be flexible enough to adjust to your needs.

Independent advice

Our expert advisers and our whole of market approach means we can consider all available options for your Inheritance Tax and generational planning priorities. An effective estate management plan tends to incorporate a combination of solutions and strategies. Commonly considered options include:

Making sure your affairs are structured to maximise the use of reliefs and allowances;
Using life cover to meet some of or all the potential Inheritance Tax liability;
Setting up gifting strategies to cascade wealth down the generations;
Making pension contributions for others to boost their retirement funding and reduce your Inheritance Tax bill;
Arranging trust-based solutions that are specific to your needs. Such as discounted trusts, loan trusts, flexible trusts and discretionary arrangements;
Setting up Family Investment Companies (FIC) to manage your family wealth;
Using tax privileged investments that align with your ethical views to accelerate Inheritance Tax mitigation. Such as Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) and Business Relief (BR) investments.

As a truly independent advice firm we will consider all options available to you to make sure you receive expert advice.

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Choosing Path also helps our financial wellbeing, allowing us to make smarter and more sustainable choices that may traditionally cost a bit more money. With Path, you can be ethical and financially robust.
– Gordon Barker, Path customer since 2021

Anyone in the UK with an estate valued above £325,000 may be subject to Inheritance Tax upon their death.

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