Inheritance

How to achieve your mother’s wish for your brother’s portion of any inheritance to go to her really depends on whether they had children

Former Fine Gael TD says he is ‘gobsmacked’ by turnout at public meeting in south Dublin calling for end of ‘State-sponsored grave robbery’

Rules on gifting property while alive are very different to the situation when you are dead and the recipient is inheriting

The people charged with managing your affairs after you die, or needing access to family funds, need to know where things are

Bank's odd-lot offer aims to provide an exit to pre-financial crash shareholders whose shares are worth less than the cost of selling them

Plus: Alan Shatter seeks to protect the inheritance; a campaign for a Colm Meaney statue in Killarney; and Clare Daly’s political future

Budget set to be a pre-election attempt to win middle-class votes, with inheritance tax cuts, falling income taxes and housing on the agenda

Situation highlights danger of ‘informal’ arrangements on inheritance and importance of keeping wills updated

Q&A: Gifts to family and the tax implications

State is long past the point where it should be treating all families equally

Q&A: Depending on timing two different people can end up paying different amounts of tax on the same amount of an inheritance or gift

Property dealings within families are not that uncommon in Ireland but it is important to be aware of the tax rules that can apply

Inheriting a property can certainly leave you exposed to a large tax bill but not always

Tax Strategy Group suggests Revenue should keep records with reporting of gifts and inheritance mandatory for beneficiaries

Department of Finance’s Tax Strategy Group examines ways to strengthen the State’s inheritance tax system

Challenging a will comes with no guarantee of success and can be expensive both financially and in terms of personal relationships

Cutting inheritance tax benefits the offspring of the generation now leaving property behind - and their parents already enjoyed mortgage interest relief in the past

Fine Gael risks deepening social divisions with pre-election budget measure pandering to an already well off constituency

The home is large and the expenses of maintaining the house after my death will not make sense

Simon Harris suggests capital acquisitions tax changes may be relevant in context of search for ‘whole variety of housing solutions’

When you inherit, the value of that inheritance and when any tax is due is not as straightforward as you might think

Amid buoyant tax returns, there have been calls for a reduction in inheritance tax – but those opposed say this will benefit only the wealthiest of homeowners

Q&A: Being concerned for welfare of friends is natural but does not necessarily impinge on legal rights

For people on social welfare, a windfall can unravel the financial support available without careful advance planning

Every country has its own often very different regime when it comes to how gifts and inheritances are treated

Taking control of a home he does not own and any rent it yields could prove very messy

My father left property assets in a discretionary family trust set up during his lifetime

A beneficiary is trying to work out value of shares they received and costs they can set against their sale

No-one likes to take legal action lightly but sometimes there can be very limited options otherwise

Q&A: Birth Information and Tracing Act provides new entitlements, but only for people whose birth was illegally registered

Intra-family loans are very common in Ireland but all sides need to be aware of the rules if they want to avoid unwelcome tax bills

Care is needed when planning to leave something to a person who is on means-tested social welfare support

Parent in their 70s has met someone new several years after his wife died and they are talking about getting married

Young man liable for €66,000 tax after parents ‘earmarked’ small-gift-exemption amounts for him in their own bank account

Hundreds of thousands of Irish people who remain single need to plan carefully for what will happen their property and other assets after they are gone

Simon Harris will be looking to manage the delicate balance between raising revenue and keeping the electorate happy

The role of an executor in organising the affairs of a dead person and managing inheritance is onerous and not easily discarded

Ireland’s tax code is structured in a way that provides benefits to married couples that are not available to others

Q&A: Sorting out property from overseas can be complex, especially compared to the tax certainty and flexibility of selling the property yourselves

Q&A: Limits on financial support for adult children were tightened a decade ago because of perceived abuse by well-off families