53 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 8 • no 1 • 53–72 • © Policy Press 2019 Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204674317X14908575604683 Accepted for publication 23 March 2017 • First published online 05 April 2017 article Inheritance and family conflicts: exploring asset transfers shaping intergenerational relations Misa Izuhara,1 M.Izuhara@bristol.ac.uk University of Bristol, UK Stephan Köppe, stephan.koeppe@ucd.ie University College Dublin, Ireland In contemporary societies with slower economic growth and
Policy and Politics, Vol. 8 No.1 (1980), 1-19 Wealth, Inheritance and Housing Policy Alan Murie and Ray Forrest Introduction Discussion of housing policy in Britain has for a long time concentrated upon issues of meeting a universal need for shelter and providing minimum standards of accommodation for everyone. The focus has been on housing shortage and house condition; on who gets what housing, on homelessness, overcrowding and amenity provision. The role of state intervention in housing has been seen in terms of meeting needs and enabling households to achieve
37 THREE Towards a citizen’s inheritance: reforming inheritance tax Dominic Maxwell Introduction Tarnished by emotive phrases, labelled the ‘death tax’ and ‘the tax on love’, inheritance tax (IHT) has become the bogeyman of British taxes. Add a link to house prices, the favourite topic of certain British newspapers, and a regular place in the headlines seems assured. But, like the bogeyman, many of the flaws of IHT are more talked about than real, and contain a large dose of myth and misunderstanding. This chapter argues that we need to defend the principle of a
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3 DIFFERENTIAL ACCUMULATION: wealth, inheritance and housing policy reconsidered Ray Forrest and Alan Murie As home ownership in the UK hasgrown and matured. aspects of wealth and inheritance have become an important dimension of housing debates. In political and policy dis- cussion it has been claimed that a higher level of homeowners hip will producea more democratic pattern of wealth holdings and will have significant intergenerational ef- fects as regards wealth transfers. In socio- logical and social policy debates. wealth in the form of owner occupied
15 TWO Inheritance tax: what do the people think? Evidence from deliberative workshops Miranda Lewis and Stuart White Introduction: context and questions The Child Trust Fund (CTF) is meant to ensure that all citizens have capital on maturity. As the editors note in the Introduction, since the days of Thomas Paine, proposals for universal capital grants have been linked with proposals to reform inheritance tax (IHT). The idea is to move towards a new system of inheritance in which more of the wealth that passes across generations is socialised via IHT and
85 FIVE Debating the ‘death tax’: the politics of inheritance tax in the UK Rajiv Prabhakar Introduction This chapter looks at recent debates about inheritance tax in the UK. Politicians have often seemed reluctant to make the case for inheritance tax, and I consider how discussions of this tax have changed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis as well as the new governing coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Although politicians are still wary of arguing for an increase in inheritance tax, centre-left politicians were more
Introduction The aim of this article is to explore how care experienced people ‘feel their way through’ ( Ahmed, 2014 ) inheritance. We do this by triangulating findings from informal empirical research we undertook on social media with our analysis of the broader literature on inheritance contained within blogs, autobiographies and museum exhibitions about care experience. ‘Care experience’ is a term used to describe people who spent some or all of their childhoods in care, whether that be foster care, children’s homes, residential care or kinship care. Care
pandemic, of recreation programmes at an ethnocultural and culturally specific long-term care home as a practice of cultural inheritance and community building. By presenting the significant role of recreation workers in a long-term care home, I wish to question the meaning and value of care work in long-term care facilities. Since researchers are often said to be a tool for their own research, and it is also said that researchers have to use their whole selves when conducting research ( Hordge-Freeman, 2018 ), what I discuss in this article is based on my experience
27 TWO The functional inheritance and its consequences ... established social systems absorb agents of change and de-fuse, dilute and turn to their own ends the energies originally directed towards change.... When processes embodying threat cannot be repelled, ignored, contained or transformed, social systems tend to respond by change – but the least change capable of neutralising or meeting the intrusive process. (Schon, 1971, p 40) The functional model has been the dominant organising principle throughout the growth of the welfare state. Perri 6 charts the
