If you receive an inheritance, you won’t owe extra taxes. But if you’re estate planning, consider how your assets will be taxed after you die. Many or all of the products on this page are from ...

In 1789, one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, famously wrote in a letter that “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” So true. But ...

There are two entirely reasonable responses to this. One is to worry about the new inheritocracy harming society: how it could corrode incentives to work, say, or widen inequality and distort the ...