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In 2004, Sweden repealed its inheritance tax. There were several problems associated with the tax, and the revenues it raised to the government were rather small. This is noted by the researcher Sebastian Escobar-Jansson, who has done a study for SNS on the lessons that can be drawn from the Swedish inheritance tax, as it was constructed before the repeal.

Swedish commissions of inquiry are no longer able to facilitate political compromise like they once did. Nowadays, parliamentary commissions are almost nonexistent, a group of political scientists shows in a new report from SNS.