{"id":467652,"date":"2026-02-11T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467652\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:34:16","slug":"martin-lewis-shares-marriage-rules-that-could-affect-inheritance-tax-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467652\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis shares marriage rules that could affect inheritance tax | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/martin-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Lewis<\/a> has revealed two \u201ccrucial\u201d marriage rules that could affect your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/inheritance-tax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inheritance tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Money Saving Expert\u00a0founder explained during the Martin Lewis Money Show\u00a0on Tuesday (10 February) how there is no inheritance tax on anything left between spouses, married or civil partners.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: &#8220;Even if you are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bruce-wayne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Wayne<\/a> leaving a hundred billion pounds to your husband or wife, there is no inheritance tax paid on that whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the second rule that people \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d is that \u201cyou can leave any unused allowance to your spouse, married, or civil partner only.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis has revealed two \u201ccrucial\u201d marriage rules that could affect your inheritance tax. The\u00a0Money Saving Expert\u00a0founder explained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-467652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}