{"id":86709,"date":"2018-04-28T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inheritance-tax-can-it-be-the-answer-to-wealth-inequality\/"},"modified":"2018-04-28T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T07:03:15","slug":"inheritance-tax-can-it-be-the-answer-to-wealth-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inheritance-tax-can-it-be-the-answer-to-wealth-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance tax: can it be the answer to wealth inequality?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nReports say we should use it to redistribute between generations \u2013 could we ever grow to love it?It is Britain\u2019s most hated tax, yet hardly anyone pays it. Until recently, this paradox appeared to make raising more money from inheritance tax a no-go zone. Yet leading thinktanks are now talking about it as a way to deal with some of the most burning questions on the minds of middle-class families.Baby boomers have unprecedented stashes of wealth tied up in their properties, yet their children and grandchildren are paying sky-high rents from squeezed incomes, and struggle to raise a deposit for a flat. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Reports say we should use it to redistribute between generations \u2013 could we ever grow...<\/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-86709","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-myx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53039,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/reform-property-laws-to-reduce-inequality-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":86709,"position":0},"title":"Reform property laws to reduce inequality | Letters","date":"April 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \u00a0Ian Jack engagingly highlights the massive inequality being created by the inheritance of property (Property feeds the roots of inequality in Britain, 22 April), but does not say what can be done about it. 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