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Understanding cross-border inheritance

Plain-language guides to the inheritance rules, tax treaties, and planning questions that arise when assets, heirs, or the deceased span more than one country. Written for families - not lawyers.

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Expat Inheritance Tax Guide: What Every Internationally Mobile Family Needs to Know

The complete guide to inheritance tax for expats and internationally mobile families. Covers the UK, France, Germany, UAE,…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom ↔ 🇦🇺 Australia

UK ⇔ Australia: The domicile trap expats don’t see coming

The UK–Australia corridor is one of the most travelled by British emigrants — yet there is no inheritance…

🇫🇷 France ↔ 🇦🇺 Australia

France ⇔ Australia: A treaty gap that families pay for

There is no bilateral inheritance or estate tax treaty between France and Australia. This single fact has significant…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom ↔ 🇫🇷 France

UK ⇔ France: What families need to understand

The UK–France corridor is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — cross-border inheritance situations in…

🇫🇷 France ↔ 🇪🇸 Spain

France ↔ Spain: Two forced heirship regimes and one imperfect treaty

France and Spain share one of Spain's three inheritance treaties. But the 1963 convention has known gaps —…

🇫🇷 France ↔ 🇵🇹 Portugal

France ↔ Portugal: A tax-light corridor with hidden legal complexity

Neither France nor Portugal levies inheritance tax in the way most people fear. But the Art 750 ter…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom ↔ 🇪🇸 Spain

UK ↔ Spain: Where you buy matters as much as who inherits

Spain has no single inheritance tax — it has seventeen. The region where assets are located can determine…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom ↔ 🇵🇹 Portugal

UK ↔ Portugal: The IHT trap that follows you south

Portugal abolished inheritance tax twenty years ago. But that does not mean British nationals who retire to the…