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Samsung heirs to sell $1.3 billion stake in Samsung Electronics to pay for inheritance taxes
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That's awesome. More nations need inheritance taxes.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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Indeed. That's how it should be
100%.
Now that's a tax rate I could get behind.
That and when you use stock as collateral, it should count as a taxable event.
Following the sale, Hong’s stake in the world's largest memory chipmaker will likely fall from 1.66% to 1.49%
Good that it's working but shouldn't inheritance tax at least bump them down to millionaires? I thought that the point was to prevent a wealth class, this is just an inconvenience.
Need a "securities" tax, payable in shares of the security. An annual assessment of 1% of all shares owned, transferred directly to an IRS liquidation department. The liquidated shares will be sold off to the general public over time, such that no more than 1% of total traded volume of the security are liquidated shares.
Individual investors can exempt up to $10 million in value from the tax. Artificial persons (corporations, trusts, any "owner" that isn't human) are non-exempt.
Basically, stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments become more valuable assets to the working class, but carry more liabilities for the problem class.
At their wealth class that would probably mean something like a 99.999% inheritance tax.
In every case, having to pay a big tax bill means you've made a lot of money. This should never be seen as avoidable or a hassle but something even the money-fixated should focus on and trumpet as a success.
Finally, good news (even if it is 5 years old)
You do understand that this means they received tens of billions, right?
True but it also means someone died. And now 1.3 billion of that wealth was taken away from the inheritance they received.
And it's long overdue but we have been waiting for this situation to finally resolve. And it resolved favourably.
Stop shitting on this please
It's far more common in the states/west for the ultra wealthy to weasel their way out of any taxes through shells and tax havens. That these people are paying their dues is a normal thing.
You should point your salt at all the tax avoiders first.
For me to call this good news, I would have needed few more zeroes to have been added and that money be used to help all the others have the same shot as everyone else at success.
They're still "heirs", haven't needed to work a day in their life, even if they may have.
This is what would be needed for SK's system not to be hereditary.
Cry me a billion dollar river.
5 year old news can still be sad I guess.
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