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Millionaire Tories plea for inheritance tax to be scrapped

You'll be surprised to see that Nadhim Zahawi, sacked over a tax scandal, is one of the MPs calling for it to be abolished.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2023-06-01 16:16
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Calls by senior Tories to abolish inheritance tax (IHT) have been met with scepticism from senior economists and tax experts.

More than 50 Conservative MPs, including the multi-millionaire former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Jacob Rees-Mogg, have urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to scrap the tax, according to The Telegraph.

Millionaire Nadhim Zahawi, sacked over a tax scandal, writes as if HMRC are going to make his family destitute pic.twitter.com/BhaLVaHQpk

— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) June 1, 2023

But Paul Johnson, head of the independent economic think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the tax should instead be overhauled, as it tends to be easier to avoid for the very rich with broadly-based wealth than for those with only one asset.

He tweeted: “Rather than scrapping IHT we urgently need to reform it.

“It is genuinely unfair.

“The very wealthy pay an average rate half, or less, that paid by the moderately wealthy. If all you leave is the family house it’s hard to avoid. If you have millions it is absurdly easy to avoid.”

Rather than scrapping IHT we urgently need to reform it.

It is genuinely unfair.

The very wealthy pay an average rate half, or less, that paid by the moderately wealthy. If all you leave is the family house it's hard to avoid. If you have millions it is absurdly easy to avoid https://t.co/4ignEkNJhX

— Paul Johnson (@PJTheEconomist) June 1, 2023

Inheritance tax is paid when a person’s estate is worth more than £325,000 when they die, and they do not leave everything above the threshold to their spouse, civil partner, a charity or a community amateur sports club.

Very few people actually pay the tax due to the high threshold and exemptions.

The Treasury said the 40 per cent levy, applied to the part of the estate above the Government-set threshold, raises more than £7 billion a year to help fund public services.

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Dan Neidle, the founder of the Tax Policy Associates think tank, noted that abolishing it would mean losing that tax revenue “to benefit the wealthiest 4 per cent”.

He said on Twitter that most people believe the 40 per cent rate, one of the highest in the world, is “unfair”, but that the very wealthy only “pay about 20 per cent, thanks to over-generous exemptions”.

“The obvious answer: scrap/limit the exemptions, and use the revenues raised to reduce the rate. 25 per cent, or perhaps even 20 per cent.

“Make it a fair tax, applying at a fair rate to the upper-middle class, and at that same rate to the very wealthy.”

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