We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register-linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals about the large aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link...

This paper was presented at the September 19, 2008 NYU Tax Law Review Symposium addressing Prof. Lily Batchelder's proposal to implement a comprehensive inheritance tax. This draft essay seeks to demonstrate that the comprehensive inheritance tax proposal involves a just tax. The idea of justice...