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Scrapping inheritance tax would cost £15bn a year by 2032, says IFS (www.theguardian.com)

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The IFS report, Reforming Inheritance Tax, found that in 2024, the wealthiest fifth of donors will bequeath an average of £380,000 per child, and pay inheritance tax of about 10% of this amount.

Wait, inheritance tax in the UK is only 10%? Damn, it's 40% here in the US.

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Ah, no. The Guardian is just factoring in the exempt portion.

https://www.which.co.uk/money/tax/inheritance-tax/inheritance-tax-thresholds-rates-and-who-pays-ajcJC0S14edm

Everyone in the 2023-24 tax year has a tax-free inheritance tax allowance of £325,000 - known as the nil-rate band. The allowance has remained the same since 2010-11.

The standard inheritance tax rate is 40% of anything in your estate over the £325,000 threshold.

Okay, so it works like the US, except that in the US, the exempt portion is much higher, like $13 million. Double that for married couples.

Is the primary residence exempt or something? Because otherwise, I'd think that that'd require a lot of residences to be sold to cover taxes, as a lot of houses are going to be more than that.

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Ah. No, but you do get an extra allowance for that.

Since April 2017, you've been able to pay less inheritance tax when leaving property to a family member. For the 2023-24 tax year, this transferable allowance is £175,000.

Also, it's interesting that the exemption isn't indexed for inflation in the UK, as in the US, it is. The UK has the very-favorable-to-the-elderly triple pension lock that does (at minimum) track inflation, but it sure doesn't extend to inheritance tax.