Day: November 23, 2024

The Economics of Death Part 2- Death Duties   Against a backdrop of rising income and wealth inequality across the world support for the increased use of death duties or their  re-introduction is growing, witness recent proposals by. UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves (Could Labour impose a “double death tax” of more than 50%?| Money Week.) In the past  I have strongly supported a re-introduction of  inheritance tax, a nicer name for death duties (House prices and demographics make death duties