Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 12:04 am

-=> Angus McLeod wrote to Richardw <=-

 AM>   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 AM>   By: Richardw to Deuce on Mon Sep 12 2005 08:00:00

 >  > Bah, tax people when they die.  Just make a flat 95% tax on estates.
 >
 > You are one twisted individual.

 AM> Thankfully, "Death Duties" here are ZERO.

 AM> Could never see the reasoning behind the idea that the estate of the
 AM> deceased should be stripped down to nothing.  My father started his
 AM> business with a working capital of four pounds.  He worked himself into
 AM> an early grave (died at 60) and left a widow and a son still at school
 AM> (me). Someone want to tell me why my mother should have been left
 AM> destitute and I should have been denied the ability to complete my
 AM> education, just so the government could rip off my old man's estate?
 AM> Particularly when you consider that whatever he left behind was
 AM> *already* the slim pickings remaining after every cent he ever made had
 AM> already been taxed to the hilt?


In USA law, estates valued under a $1m are not bothered. 

Would you still have to worry?

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