Another view of the reasons for the sale!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100018367/revealed-why-gordon-brown-sold-britains-gold-at-a-knock-down-price/
Get a bit bored with this continual ref to the gold reserves which in the grand scheme of things is pretty insignificant. The situation in 2010 was due to a global recession, not due to the mismanagement of the economy by labour.
Are you saying that the 5/6% of estates that pay IHT represent the middle. If so, it's a bloody small middle!
Where do you get your statistics from? The figures on the Government website only include estates upto 2012
If the dead people don't like it they should make representations to...
Depends, if the estate is passed on to a surviving spouse then there is no inheritance to pay and when that spouse dies, the threshold is then £750k. How many estates exceed that?