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How can the chancellor raise the most money – at the lowest political cost?
Only a tiny fraction of Americans are rich enough for it to matter anyway. And many wealthy taxpayers already locked their existing assets into estate plans that they can’t change.
They’re often accused of exploiting farmers – but now supermarkets are taking their corner.
Tax relief may acutally have made it more expensive for farmers to buy more land to expand their business.
Farmers don’t make up that much of the Labour vote – but that doesn’t mean the government can afford to be complacent about rural communities.
If British farms are less competitive then food production will simply shift elsewhere.
The climate crisis and the need for innovative land-use solutions should be the focus for farmers.
You can almost certainly expect to gain overall from this budget, even if not personally from every change.
Can the chancellor move the dial on the Tories’ grim polling?
Removing certain reliefs would raise revenues that could be used to fund a cut in the headline rate or increased public spending.
ISAs, benefits and mortgage support are all rumoured to be mentioned in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s next autumn statement.
Asked to choose the fairest ways to raise billions, half of the economists backed introducing inheritance taxes. Around a third chose winding back super tax concessions and increased resource taxes.
The Productivity Commission’s startling finding is that passing on wealth actually cuts inequality.
As the adult children of baby boomers start inheriting their parents’ wealth, it’s time we looked seriously at taxing this unearned income.
Inequality has reached untenable levels – public spending and wealth taxes are needed.
Not only do we not tax inheritances, we actually subsidise them, making the already well off even better off.
The media loves a victim, but sympathy for someone who won’t spend what they’ve got because they’re saving for their children is taking it too far.
From wealth, to the natural world, to genes and intelligence, a podcast exploring the theme of inheritance.
Canada is the only G7 country that doesn’t have an inheritance tax. A new report says that should change. The idea of sharing the wealth from one generation to another is not new.
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Visiting Academic, The Open University
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Biology, University of Sussex
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Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Director of Durham Energy Institute, Durham University
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Teaching Fellow, Philosophy, UCL
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Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance, University of Leeds
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Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Professor of Sociology, University of New Brunswick
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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, King's College London
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Linguistics and Art History, Sam Houston State University
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Professor of Economics and Senior Researcher, Princeton University
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PhD Candidate in Conservation Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London