In 2007, George Osborne announced the “death knell for death taxes” when he promised that only millionaires would pay inheritance tax. But more than a decade after the former Chancellor’s pledge, this ...

You have only to peruse the personal finance pages of this newspaper to realise how deeply the middle-class obsession with inheritance runs. Readers’ queries range from the bizarre to the mundane.

The "death tax" is one of the most emotive and controversial levies, but what would its abolition mean for inequality? "Nothing is certain except death and taxes," American statesman Benjamin Franklin ...