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Ryan Bridge: Labour should steer well clear of an inheritance tax
I'm always a little bit paranoid about what governments are planning and what kind of taxes that they're scheming up.
Look at the UK, which recently elected Labour and Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.
They are talking about the potential of fiddling with their inheritance tax.
They have one, we don't. On Heather's show yesterday we heard about the Labour Party in New Zealand weighing up whether to introduce one.
I hate the idea of it. In the UK it's 40% and they paid £7.5 billion in death duties last year, which is a huge increase and this is largely because property prices have gone up…
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