Summary Inheritance tax is levied on the estates of the deceased, including on lifetime gifts made up to seven years … Continue reading “A Taxing Inheritance”

Britain has fifth highest tax in the OECD on what parents leave to children, placing it in a small group of high-tax outliers and far above where headline … Continue reading “Britain has one of the world’s harshest inheritance taxes, and should scrap it, says new IEA paper”

We’ve all heard Colbert’s famous one-liner about the art of taxation being that of plucking the goose to obtain the … Continue reading “The case against Colbertism”

Tax doesn’t have to be taxing, as those jolly HMRC adverts would have us believe. But given the length (10 … Continue reading “Debate: Which tax would you axe? (Part 1)”

In 2004 the Swedish inheritance tax and gift tax was abolished by a unanimous vote in the Riksdag. In a … Continue reading “How high-tax Sweden abolished its disastrous inheritance tax”

A classical conservative believes private property exists in a moral, not merely political sense.  We could truly own things even … Continue reading “Wealth taxes are not the way to go”

Whenever we approach a General Election or Budget, the competition for the daftest tax policy idea is always intense. The … Continue reading “Why Tory plans to reform Inheritance Tax will make a bad system even worse”

In the dark days of the 1970s, Labour MPs Jeff Rooker, then aged just 36, and Audrey Wise engineered an … Continue reading “For the sake of our children, stand firm on tax by stealth”

I do not agree with taxes on wealth as a matter of principle. In general, increases in wealth come from … Continue reading “The Cable-Montgomerie-Balls tax: bottom of the worst-buy list of tax policies”