The average expected middle class inheritance tax bill is £4,000

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The Financial Times has reported that the average middle-class family expect to leave £335,000 to their offspring.

If this were to only come from one family member, then that leaves an average inheritance tax bill of just £4000.

Two thoughts follow. First, why does inheritance tax have such limited impact? Second, how has this tax been so successfully exploited by the right when he so obviously irrelevant to most families?


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