THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

Inheritance tax at 40 per cent is paid by a relatively small but growing number of people's estates. Those whose home or savings drags them into the inheritance tax net often want to avoid loved ones ...

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Can paying attention establish a new field? Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first person to definitively link trait inheritance to a specific chromosome and his white-eyed flies. Table 1 provides ...

When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...

If you inherit an IRAs, you may need to take required minimum distributions (RMDs). Spouses may delay RMDs or opt for life expectancy payouts; others face stricter timelines. Non-spouse heirs ay need ...

Inherited IRAs transfer the deceased's retirement funds to beneficiaries and have strict withdrawal rules. Spouses inheriting IRAs have more flexible options, including rolling funds into their own ...

Managing your taxes can be one of the most complex aspects of estate planning and a new IRS rule change continues that trend. The rule, published at the end of March 2023, changes how the step-up in ...

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