Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-07 | Page 6 | Too Much to Take

TOO MUCH TO TAKE. A great deal is said from time to time about tho imposition of heavy taxes upon inheritances. It is admitted by all who havo made an intelligent study of tho subject that inheritance taxes in this country should belong exclusively ex-clusively to tho Slates. But whilo it is true that inheritors can with less inconvenience in-convenience than others stand heavy rates of taxation on the money which comes to them by way of heirship or wills, it is a clear case that . nobody wants estates robbed merely that the State may be enriched. A case in point is that of the American Ameri-can millionaire Anthony Brady, who had large properties in England and who died there. The British government govern-ment assesses heavy inheritance taxes upon iUl such estates, and in the case of this Brady estate, which was listed at $0,577j640, the British government takes more than $.1,000,000 in "death duties.'' It is a case of unusual extortion, also, since the people of tho United States see this American money go to the English government. Tt is a concrete con-crete illustration of the proposition that taxation should be fair, and that mere accidental circumstances should not be allowed to interpose for the robbery of estates which in tho jurisdiction juris-diction whore that property is levied upon, has in fact no business to bo taxed at all.