Inheritance tax: The time has come for abolition

Inheritance tax achieves no beneficial social objective. Essentially, it is a mechanism to facilitate the state to rob the graves of the dead and cruelly deprive bereaved relations of assets to which they are entitled.

Put simply, through inheritance tax, the state expropriates or confiscates assets lawfully accumulated during a deceased's lifetime and deprives the deceased of the right to pass those assets fully intact to his or her closest family relations and ...