{"id":56957,"date":"2021-05-14T17:21:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=56957"},"modified":"2021-05-15T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T08:24:09","slug":"we-need-better-tax-es-to-tackle-wealth-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/05\/14\/we-need-better-tax-es-to-tackle-wealth-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"We need better taxes to tackle wealth inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/tax\/tax-policy\/inheritance-taxation-in-oecd-countries-infographic.pdf?utm_source=Adestra&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=Tax%20News%20Alert%2013-05-2021&amp;utm_term=ctp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infographic from the OECD<\/a> on inheritance tax was worth sharing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-56959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.24-550x497.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.24-550x497.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.24-332x300.png 332w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.24-768x694.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.24-1536x1388.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.24-443x400.png 443w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.24.png 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-56960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09-550x804.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09-550x804.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09-768x1123.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09-1050x1536.png 1050w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09-1400x2048.png 1400w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09-273x400.png 273w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-14-at-14.18.09.png 1686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The message? Inheritance taxes are not working and that we can do a lot better when it comes to taxing wealth to promote greater equality within society - which is an advantage in itself.<\/p>\n<p>If only UK political parties would take such issues on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that this infographic from the OECD on inheritance tax was worth sharing: The message? Inheritance taxes are not working and that we can<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/05\/14\/we-need-better-tax-es-to-tackle-wealth-inequality\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,30,78,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-inheritance-tax","category-oecd","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}