{"id":10348,"date":"2016-04-10T23:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T16:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inheritance-tax-a-brief-history-of-death-duties\/"},"modified":"2016-04-10T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T16:50:48","slug":"inheritance-tax-a-brief-history-of-death-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inheritance-tax-a-brief-history-of-death-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance tax: a brief history of death duties"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn 2014, the latest year for which data is available, 28,000 estates, or 5% of all deaths, were subject to the taxModern inheritance tax dates back to 1894 when the government introduced estate duty, a tax on the capital value of land, in a bid to raise money to pay off a \u00a34m government deficit. Related: Cameron faces questions over \u00a3200,000 gift from mother Continue reading…
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In 2014, the latest year for which data is available, 28,000 estates, or 5% of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-2GU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1010,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inheritance-tax-set-to-hit-35-year-peak\/","url_meta":{"origin":10348,"position":0},"title":"Inheritance tax set to hit 35-year peak","date":"January 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Estates affected by \u2018death duties\u2019 to reach 45,000 in 2016-17 before new allowance kicks in\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...Inheritance tax set to hit 35-year peak","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45960,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cutting-inheritance-tax-now-exposes-a-warped-sense-of-priorities-rachel-reeves\/","url_meta":{"origin":10348,"position":1},"title":"Cutting inheritance tax now exposes a warped sense of priorities | Rachel Reeves","date":"March 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r This plan to help the wealthiest will entrench the north-south divide. 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