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What is a financial statement and why should directors maintain them?

• Updated: 7 July 2023

Value the estate of someone who's died so that you can get probate: work out if tax is due, check how to report the estate's value, complete the correct form.

• What you need to do

  To find out if there’s Inheritance Tax to pay, you need to value the…

• Identify assets and debts

  Before you can value the deceased’s money, property and possessions (their…

• Estimate the estate’s value

  You need an estimate of the estate’s value (the deceased’s money, property…

• Check if you need to send full details of the estate

  Before you report the value of the estate (the deceased’s money, property…

• If Inheritance Tax is due or full details are needed

  You must report the value of the estate to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)…

• Records

  You must keep certain records after you value an estate. HM Revenue and…

Find out how much money you need to get a Student or Child Student visa, and how to prove you have the money.

• Updated: 2 January 2025

A framework to help schools to collect information about their income and expenditure.

• Updated: 3 April 2024

Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company

If you’re coming to the UK, you’ll need to prove you have enough money to support yourself and any dependants in the UK.

• Updated: 22 August 2022

Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.

Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together

How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation.

• Updated: 16 August 2024