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Scrapping inheritance tax is good for all of us

Ed Conway is commenting on inheritance tax in The Times. He refers to research by Mikael Elinder who is affiliated to IFN, and more: "Having dug through years of Swedish data, they found that inheritance directly reduced the wealth gini coefficient — the most widely-followed measure of  inequality — by a whopping 6 per cent, about the same as the impact of a big stock market crash."

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