More than half (52 percent) of UK adults want to see inheritance tax (IHT) “scrapped or at least reduced”, new research from Handelsbanken Wealth & Asset Management showed.
The research showed 27 percent of adults want to see IHT scrapped.
Women (29 percent) were more likely to want it scrapped than men (25 percent) while 50 to 64-year-olds at 31 percent were the most in favour of scrapping the tax, compared with 29 percent of over-65s and 21 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds.
A quarter ...