Sentences with phrase «inheritance tax systems»

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The best friends that capitalism has in this country today are the antitrust laws, the graduated income tax, the inheritance taxes, the social security program, and all the other legislation that has tempered the capitalist system, spread the wealth, provided for adequate public services, and created the great middle class that makes the American economy strong.

Thus, in the U.S. tax system, an inheritance tax ensures the unrealized capital gains of people who die are taxed at least once.

In the guise of a traditional Tory, he clings to pledges to raise the threshold for inheritance tax and, despite a recent wobble, to recognise marriage in the tax system.

It would also ditch any proposal to cut the inheritance tax threshold, and end plans to recognise marriage in the tax system.

An alternative, perhaps fairer tax system, but not an easy one to administer might be to tax individuals at progressive rates on the total amount of gifts and inheritances they receive over their lifetime — or extending the reach of the tax to gifts made more than seven years before death, for example to 15 years.