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YOUR TAX BILL
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Plans to give millions of cohabiting couples better inheritance rights are coming in for criticism.

Some 1.5 million pensioners have overpaid tax by an average of £171 each since 2002-3, an official report says.

A woman who contested her parents' will after they left their £2m estate to the RSPCA wins her legal challenge.

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TAX BASICS
HM Revenue and Customs is running a campaign offering a last chance to pay tax on money hidden in offshore bank accounts
Inheritance tax is levied on estates worth a total of more than £325,000
The deadline for filing self-assessment tax forms online is 31 January following the end of the tax year - three months later than paper returns
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