• Inheritance tax is entirly escapable by doing dodgy shell company trust arrangements across different countries. It is a tax only paid by the lower and low middle class that prevents people to build intergenerational wealths and keeps the lower classes down. The farmers shouldnt be exempt but that doesnt mean they dont have a damn fine point.

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      Tax only applies to farms worth more than £1 million, so “lower and low middle class” are exempt.

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        It’s 3m of you are married and use all the allowances. Even then it’s only on the amount over that and at half the usual rate, then you get ten years to pay it back.

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      Inheritance tax should be amended to be also paid on trusts (and stocks and shares) then. Just because it’s currently implemented badly doesn’t mean it’s a flawed concept.

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          Because that leads to a snowballing effect. Money begets money. Over generations, it gets sucked into an ever smaller pool of people. This (among other things) led to serfdom etc in the Middle Ages. We only broke out of that due to the Black Death.

          We need a way to allow money to spread back to the general populous. An inheritance tax is a crude, but effective, way to do that.

          How would you go about achieving this?

          • Most intergenerational wealth is lost within a few generations actually.

            There would be 2 things id do to fix tax

            1. Resource tax for every kg of material dug/pumped out of the ground.
            2. Land value tax based on the developed value of the land
            3. If i had global control then id do a 75% capital gains tax on all gains over 5million