tempfile 9 days ago

> I guess it was a tax on unrealized gains!

Inheritance taxes invariably are. The recent UK controversy around farm land inheritance was the same.

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pjc50 9 days ago

That was definitely a case of people buying up land purely for the IHT value and then doing some toy farming on the corner to get the exemption.

I feel like a lot of these cases could be avoided if people wanted to structure their family business like a business and gradually transfer control to their children, rather than keep it as personal property right until the very last minute.