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Cutting inheritance tax for millionaires is a handout to the wealthiest.

Cutting inheritance tax for millionaires would represent “a handout to the wealthiest”.

Most people either do not receive any inheritance, or pay no tax on anything they inherit - with just 4% of estates paying any inheritance tax at all. Abolishing inheritance tax would be a giveaway for “a very small, very wealthy minority”.