But there's also a key reason that everyone, including the wealthy, should support an inheritance tax: self-preservation.
The 31 January deadline for completing tax self-assessment forms was reportedly missed by 890,000 people.
It said the new system created a "series of administrative complexities", including the need for up to 500,000 more individuals to fill in tax self-assessment forms.
That was not quite as awful for Theresa May as the "nothing has changed" general election presser where she had to rewrite her election manifesto after the "dementia tax" self-destructed, but it was not far off.
Suddenly we were plunged into the torrid industrial turmoil of the Heath years, including the strike against the iniquitous lump — the no tax, self-employment cash payment system then favoured by employers for uninsured work on the country's notoriously dangerous construction sites where, as Labour backbencher David Anderson put it, "a building worker was dying every day on average".
Schedule SE: Self-Employment Tax Self-employed people must pay what amounts to both the employee's and employer's shares of Social Security and Medicare taxes --15.3percentt ofirst first $72,600 in 1999 earnings, and 2.9percentt of anything over that.
In the U.S., employers and employees split the bill for Social Security and Medicare, through what are known as "payroll taxes". However, through what is aptly named the Self-Employment Tax, self-employed individuals have to pay not only the employee side of Medicare, and Social Security taxes, as employees do, but also the employer side.
I've written about these and related questions in my essay on Paying for Particulars in People-to-be, as has Bridget Crawford in a thoughtful article called Our Bodies, Our (Tax) Selves.
The notice was posted in the latest edition of the Bulletin under headings for income tax, gift tax, estate tax, self-employment tax, employment tax and excise tax.
However, the tax self-assessment form does also include a note of charity gifts so higher rate taxpayers can choose to donate this extra tax to charity too.
Then, just as employers are allowed to deduct their share of the taxes, self-employed people are allowed to deduct half their self-employment taxes.
