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A comment on Hong Kong Property Tycoon Gave Away Children’s $400m Inheritance. Parent comment

Re:Hong Kong Property Tycoon Gave Away Children’s $400m Inhe... by floe on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @01:14PM (#19730686)
What would prevent you from just spending / donating your whole estate before you passed and then paying zero taxes? Or is that a feature in your system?
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Re:Hong Kong Property Tycoon Gave Away Children’s $400m Inhe... by beefield on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @02:46PM (#19731556)
Of course there are practical issues in paying all of my taxes from my estate, but I can still hope that I could pay a bit more of my taxes after my death and less while I live.
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