A New Citizenship Won't Stop Inheritance Tax

Your heirs could owe inheritance tax to a country you left years ago, or to one you never lived in. Leave Britain after 20 years, and its 40 percent inheritance tax can follow your estate for up to ten years. A second citizenship from the Caribbean changes none of that. The United States taxes its citizens' estates wherever they live; in 2026 each citizen can leave 15 million dollars free of estate tax, with 40 percent charged above it. This episode follows the three claims a country can make...