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.
Moorish Ambassador of the Barbary States to the Court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including present day Spain and Portugal) as well as the Maghreb and western Africa, whose culture is often called Moorish. The word was also used more generally in Europe to refer to anyone of Arab or African descent, sometimes called Blackamoors.
The Saxons (Latin: Saxones, Old English: Seaxe, Old Saxon: Sahson, Low German: Sassen) were a group of Germanic tribes first mentioned as living near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany , in the late Roman Empire.