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Both chancellors of the exchequer used extra revenues from death duties to lower the income tax.
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The gut dislike of death duties seems to arise because the tax clashes with heartfelt dynastic instincts.
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Another argument for death duties is that big bequests make people less likely to work and to be enterprising.
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If one lot of unmarried people can avoid death duties and inherit their partners' pensions, why shouldn't the other lot?
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Kamprad has shrouded his business in an opaque collection of trusts and holding companies, in part to shelter Ikea from Sweden's confiscatory taxes and death duties.
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Death duties can also be justified in terms of fairness.
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Until recently this was a worry only for the super-rich, but now many ordinary people fear that, thanks to rising house prices, they may be dragged into paying death duties.
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The fiscal cost of abolishing death duties may seem trifling, but it still means that for a given level of public spending other taxes must rise, which may harm incentives more.
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He offered up five tax cuts (abolishing death duties went down particularly well with the aging audience) and four examples of getting rid of red tape, including scrapping the Environmental Protection Agency.
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One exception was its sale in the late 1960s of a 15% stake in Daimler-Benz, to help pay duties on the death of Harald, Herbert's half-brother.
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"By the sudden death of my dear father I am called to assume the duties and responsibilities of sovereignty, " the 25-year old queen explained to her privy councilors back in London.
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