stephanie vienna university of economics and business studies how social inequality is passed on across the generations. inheriting is a big issue in austria in two thousand and eight the inheritance tax was abolished even though more and more wealth is being passed on in be quest here. for a woman here we can see the volume of wealth that will be inherited in the coming fifty years currently estimating a value of around fifteen billion and this value will more than double by the year twenty fifty. stefan is convinced that although inheriting doesn't cause inequality it in trenches it it's not fair he says that high taxes have to be paid on money earned from work but none for wealth and inheritances that's why home is in favor of reintroducing the inheritance tax as an equalizer an element. of. the current. we could use this inheritance tax to reduce the tax burden on work and we could support several other things of social value. because if. we could increase the equality of opportunity and intergenerational fairness fane then this think you we want to prevent households from drifting

of germany's wealth. stephanie vienna a university of economics and business studies how social inequality is passed on across the generations. inheriting is a big issue in austria in two thousand and eight the inheritance tax was abolished even though more and more wealth is being passed on in the quest. for a woman here we can see the volume of wealth that will be inherited in the coming fifty years currently estimating a value of around fifteen billion and this value will more than double by the year twenty fifty. stefan is convinced that although inheriting doesn't cause inequality it in trenches it it's not fair he says that high taxes have to be paid on money earned from work but none for wealth and inheritances that's why home is in favor of reintroducing the inheritance tax as an equal izing element. the company i prefer. we could use this inheritance tax to reduce the tax burden on work and we could support several other things of social value. because if. we could increase the equality of opportunity and intergenerational fairness fane then this think you we want to prevent households from drifting