Rates of inheritance tax Rate Since its introduction on 15 March 1988, inheritance tax on death is taxed at 40% on the taxable value of the estate that exceeds the exemption. Lifetime transfers are taxed at 20% From 6 April 2012, there is a proposed 36% rate for estates where 10% has been donated to charity.
The Moors. Muslim warriors crossed the narrow Strait of Gibraltar in the eighth century to invade the Iberian Peninsula at the southwest corner of Europe. Muslims controlled part or most of present-day Spain and Portugal for the next 800 years.
In fact, the Moors in Spain had a profound influence not just upon Spain but the whole of Western Europe. Indeed, it has been said that they laid the foundations of the Renaissance that brought Europe out of the intellectual and physical gloom of the Middle Ages.