Inheritance taxes take wealth away from heirs, but unless there’s tremendous faith in the quality of government it’s not clear that it benefits everyone else. In the US the people who’d get richer from the government being flush with inheritance tax money are more Lockheed Martin / Blackwater / private prisons / Wall Street / consultants. In India it would be bureaucrats and their cronies. I’d rather the wealth be passed on and used productively, or squandered into the local economy. Happy either way.