A study of some of the combined tax effects of capital gains tax and estate duty and a comparison with similar legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom

This paper presents a study of some of the combined effects of capital gains tax and estate duty. In addition, the current estate tax and inheritance tax situations in the United States of America and United Kingdom, respectively, are discussed in this paper for comparative purposes. The tax regimes in the United States of America and the United Kingdom are relevant to this investigation due to their ability to avoid imposing both capital gains tax and estate tax upon the same assets on the death of an individual. The generation-skipping transfer tax in the United States of America and the United Kingdom inheritance tax generation-skipping provisions are also examined as they may assist to close some of the loopholes in the existing South African estate duty legislation. By closing these loopholes, the need to subject the estate assets to both capital gains tax and estate duty on the death of a person may be negated.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

College of Accounting

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Shev, Joanne

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Roeleveld, Jennifer

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6904

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6904