{"title": "Finland's Inheritance Tax Reform Collapses", "titleOriginal": "Perintöverouudistus kaatui - villapaitaekonomistit riemuitsivat Sami Miettinen", "episodeNumber": "db-546", "guest": "Sami Miettinen", "publishedAt": "2025-05-26", "duration": "00:38", "durationIso": "PT38S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MefI_X3Q-A", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/546-perintoverouudistus-kaatui-villapaitaekonomistit-riemuitsiva", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "short", "topics": ["ownership_capital_tax", "finnish_economy_policy"], "description": "A clip from the episode \"Warren Buffett Taxes | Miettinen | #neuvottelija 329.\" Despite Sami's many episodes and appearances — including on Roni Arvonen's episode \"Finland's most hated tax\" and on EVA's podcast episode \"More capitalism for Finland\" — the inheritance tax reform failed. Finland will continue to tax ownership significantly more heavily than Sweden and Norway going forward.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "finnish-platform-captions-db", "subtitleMethod": "publisher-english-cues-imported-and-qa", "provenance": "neuvottelija.fi Supabase episode-markdown API (platform captions)", "slug": "546-perintoverouudistus-kaatui-villapaitaekonomistit-riemuitsiva", "guestsCanonical": [], "guestPages": [], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/546-perintoverouudistus-kaatui-villapaitaekonomistit-riemuitsiva/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/546-perintoverouudistus-kaatui-villapaitaekonomistit-riemuitsiva/index.md", "captions": {"vtt": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/546-perintoverouudistus-kaatui-villapaitaekonomistit-riemuitsiva/captions.en.vtt", "srt": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/546-perintoverouudistus-kaatui-villapaitaekonomistit-riemuitsiva/captions.en.srt"}, "transcript": "[00:00] Then the biggest disappointment, of course, was the failure of this inheritance tax reform based on the Norwegian and Swedish models. It would have been quite a no-brainer. In my defence, I had quite a few episodes about it where it was argued. I also went on the Kuuntelija podcast to explain why it's Finland's most hated tax. It will indeed now be left for the next right-wing government to implement. But now these changes were quite small and cosmetic. That is, the tax-free portion was raised not to the American 12.9 million, but from €20,000 to €30,000. It is paid in advance by the heir, and if they are unable to pay, the penalty interest on it was also eased slightly.\n"}