This table shows statistics about inherited wealth of deceased people.

The inheritances are made up for all people died, registered from the Dutch population register on January 1st.

Because of the revision of the income statistics, there are differences between 2010 and 2011. From 2007 until 2010 background characteristics of persons represent the situation on the 31st of December in that year. From 2011 onwards characteristics represent the situation on the 1st of January of the given year.

Data available from: 2007.

Status of the figures: The figures for 2007 to 2021 are final. The figures for 2022 are preliminary.

Changes as of March 2025: Figures for 2021 are finalized. Preliminary figures for 2022 are added.

When will new figures be published? New figures will be published in the first quarter of 2026.

This table shows statistics about receivers of the inherited wealth of deceased persons. The inheritances are made up for all receivers of inheritances with an tax-registration on the inheritance available.

Because of the revision of the income statistics, there are some remarkable differences between 2010 and 2011. From 2007 until 2010 background characteristics of receivers represent the situation on the 31st of December in that year. From 2011 onwards characteristics from receivers represent the situation on the 1st of January of the given year.

Data available from: 2007.

Status of the figures: The figures for 2007 to 2021 are final. The figures for 2022 are preliminary.

Changes as of March 2025: Figures for 2021 are finalized and preliminary figures for 2022 are added.

When will new figures be published? New figures will be published in the first quarter of 2026.

This statistic shows the top ten cities with the largest share of billionaires who inherited their wealth in 2015. In 2015, 82 percent of billionaires in Bielefeld-Detmold inherited their wealth.

Provides information on Inheritance Tax (IHT) liabilities, which types of estates pay Inheritance Tax, the use of tax reliefs and the assets left on death by these estates, their size and location, and characteristics of the deceased. Previously listed under 'Revenue-based Taxes and Benefits: Inheritance Tax'. Source agency: HM Revenue and Customs Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Inheritance Tax: Other analyses

The purpose of this data set is to identify long term trends in the reach and effects of Australia’s inheritance and gift taxes. It compiles figures from 1914, when the Commonwealth estate duty was introduced, through to the mid-1980s, when all Commonwealth and State-level taxes and duties had ceased to apply. It includes yearly figures for numbers of taxable deceased estates, gross assets (as assessed), the amount of duty payable, and the amount of revenue collected by federal and State governments. And, as far as possible, it compiles data relating to the age, gender, occupation and location of tax donors. The data set also includes some calculations relating to tax incidence and donors’ wealth brackets. The raw data were compiled from the annual Year Book Australia, the Year Books of the Australian States, the annual Report of the Commissioner of Taxation, and demographic data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. All of these publications are available in the public domain and none of the data are subject to copyright.

This table provides details of the assets of the deceased’s estates for which inheritance tax returns have been established by the tax authorities. The series has been discontinued as a result of a new set of figures on inheritances and acquisitions. Data available from 2005 to 2010.

Status of the figures

The figures for the years 2005-2009 are final.

The figures for 2010 are provisional. As this table has been discontinued, the data will no longer be definitive.

Changes as of April 2016:

None, this table has been discontinued

As of 2010, the levying of the inheritance tax and the inheritance tax declaration have been amended. As a result, the data of the estates and acquisitions from 2010 onwards are not entirely comparable to the 2005-2009 data.

The series in the new set-up is expected in mid-2017. This new series contains figures for the period 2005 to 2014.

In 2024/25, tax receipts from inheritance tax in the United Kingdom were estimated to have reached 8.3 billion British pounds. Receipts from this type of tax are expected to continue growing, reaching 14.3 billion pounds by 2029/30.

Statistics are based on the published data of inheritance tax verification cases and the application cases for abandonment of inheritance (excluding estate administrators), so estate administrators and those who have abandoned inheritance without reporting are not included in the statistics.

The issue of inheritance has, until recent decades, concerned only a small percentage of the population, because only this group has been rich enough to have assets to leave to others. The growth of home-ownership, however, has probably increased the number of people who will both bequeath and inherit assets. The Attitudes to Inheritance, 2004 study was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in order to research people's attitudes to inheritance. Initial developmental work for the project comprised a literature review, secondary analysis of previous qualitative and quantitative studies and four focus group discussions conducted with owner-occupiers. The main component of the study was a nationally representative survey of 2,008 people living in Britain, the results of which comprise this dataset.

Why are some societies more unequal than others? The French revolutionaries believed unequal inheritances among siblings to be responsible for the strict hierarchies of the Ancien Regime. To achieve equality, the revolutionaries therefore enforced equal inheritance rights. Their goal was to empower women and to disenfranchise the noble class. But, do equal inheritances succeed in leveling the societal playing field? We study Germany — a country with pronounced local-level variation in inheritance customs — and find that municipalities that historically equally apportioned wealth, to this day, elect more women into political councils and have fewer aristocrats in the social elite. Using historic data, we point to two mechanisms: wealth equality and pro-egalitarian preferences. In a final step, we also show that, counterintuitively, equitable inheritance positively predicts income inequality. We interpret this finding to mean that equitable inheritance levels the playing field by rewarding talent, not status.

Evolutionary adaptation occurs when individuals vary in access to fitness-relevant resources and these differences in “material wealth” are heritable. It is typically assumed that the inheritance of material wealth reflects heritable variation in the phenotypic abilities needed to acquire material wealth. We scrutinize this assumption by investigating additional mechanisms underlying the inheritance of material wealth in collared flycatchers. A genome-wide-association analysis reveals a high genomic heritability (h2=0.405+/-0.08) of access to caterpillar larvae, a fitness-relevant resource, in the birds’ breeding territories. However, we find little evidence for heritable variation in phenotypic abilities needed to acquire this material wealth. Instead, combined evidence from simulations, experimental, and long-term monitoring data indicate that inheritance of material wealth is largely explained by philopatry causing a within-population genetic structure across a heterogeneous landscape. Therefore, allelic variants associated with high material wealth may spread in the population without having causal connections to traits promoting local adaptation.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Inheritance Fire

Provides information on Inheritance Tax (IHT) cash receipts from estates and trusts and values of non-cash settlements of IHT liabilities. Previously listed under 'Revenue-based Taxes and Benefits: Inheritance Tax'. Source agency: HM Revenue and Customs Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Inheritance Tax: Analysis of Receipts

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Inheritance House Inc.

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Why do countries repeal the inheritance tax? To investigate this question, we use a novel dataset on inheritance tax introductions and repeals worldwide. We argue that revenue requirements are the main determinant of repeal risks: The inheritance tax is resilient as long as it is central to the national revenue system; it becomes vulnerable to attacks once the rise of more efficient tax instruments marginalizes its revenue contribution. Devoid of fiscal purpose, its survival comes to depend mainly on its redistributive features. Redistribution, however, is essentially contested and should be more important in democracies. The evidence is in line with our conjecture: The likelihood of inheritance tax repeal increases as other more buoyant taxes rise and non-democracies are more likely to repeal the tax than democracies.

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