Yahoo Finance

Why only the middle classes pay inheritance tax – never the super-rich

In 2007, George Osborne announced the “death knell for death taxes” when he promised that only millionaires would pay inheritance tax. But more than a decade after the former Chancellor’s pledge, this ...
Business Insider

It's getting harder than ever to become a self-made billionaire. But inheritances are still going strong.

Billionaires minted through inheritance outpaced self-made billionaires last year for the first time in a decade. Experts cite deteriorating conditions for building wealth through entrepreneurship.
The Irish Times

Ireland’s low inheritance tax is part of a social bargain with its middle classes

You have only to peruse the personal finance pages of this newspaper to realise how deeply the middle-class obsession with inheritance runs. Readers’ queries range from the bizarre to the mundane.
Business Insider

It's getting harder than ever to become a self-made billionaire. But inheritances are still going strong.

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