In the UK in the same year, 27,800 estates paid inheritance tax, in a country of 68 million. Taking account of the different population sizes, 54 times as many estates are subject to national ...

Now let’s compare Germany and its reassuring social democratic model. Take a divorcee, whose modest house in London’s Putney bought 30 years ago is now worth £2.1m, has savings of £400,000, and leaves ...

Inheritance taxes, imposed by a few states, ... Germany, Japan, Brazil, and the state of Louisiana, limits exist on the extent to which individuals can freely dispose of their assets.