Prohibitive death duties

Failure to account for government duties applied to inheritance can result in undesired sale of family property, inadequate provision for a surviving spouse and other family stresses.

In the UK, inheritance tax on Estates start at 40% for estates in excess of £128,000.

1. Discredited moneyed hereditary class
2. Denial of right to a people to freely dispose of natural wealth

1. Denial of right to inherit property

1. Dying intestate

1. Unequal income distribution within countries
2. Personal wealth
3. Inheritance of widows
4. Accumulation of capital

1. Unmanageable cost of dying
2. Dependence within extended families

1. Writing a will
2. Using economic instruments
3. Reducing expense of dying

1. Prohibition
2. Distortion
3. Death