{"id":774253,"date":"2026-09-18T02:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774253\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:44:15","slug":"how-to-avoid-paying-inheritance-tax-on-uk-pensions-from-april-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774253\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid paying inheritance tax on UK pensions from April 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 18, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Millions of dollars held in UK pensions by British migrants here and Australians who spent time living and working in Britain could lose almost half their value when passed to the next generation after April next year.<\/p>\n<p>Private and workplace pensions in the UK have historically been exempt from the UK\u2019s 40 per cent inheritance tax, making them a popular vehicle for passing on wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 18, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Millions of dollars held in UK pensions by British migrants here and Australians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}