It's career change day! Having said that my employer uses it, and I have had to SNEAK Chrome onto the system when they weren't watching, which has upset the bearded dribbling brigade.
The problem with IHT, is that if you are seriously rich your accountant with arrange your affairs (via trusts, planning, offshore etc) so that you pay nothing. If you are not wealthy it doesn't affect you, so it tends to target people who are to an extent stuck in the middle.
I think you make a valid point. It would make far more sense to give all the money on death to charity, so that it is used for the benefit of those in need or who have been disadvantaged. Giving it to politicians to subsidise illegal wars and vanity projects, or feckless offspring who have done...
He may be my constituency MP, but I was very disappointed that Osborne failed to mention the Cheshire based adult film industry, and gave ZERO additional efforts to those either making films and therefore helping hard working local families, or those studying it for their PhD #KnutsfordMilfAction