---
title: "Inheritance tax and building wealth | Sami Miettinen on Kuuntelija"
summary: "Sami Miettinen as a guest on Roni Arvonen's Kuuntelija on Finland's most hated tax. The core argument is not about revenue: inheritance and gift tax raises around €1.3bn out of an inherited pot of some €7bn, but the damage is compounding cut off at the moment it has the most time left to run. Nobody inherits a sack of cash — they inherit a flat in a place with no market, held in an undivided estate, with the bill due before anything can be sold. Also covered: Sweden's 2005 abolition, an owner economy against a Finland owned by Solidium and the pension system, the euro and the payments imbalance, Poland, and whether Finland needs its own DOGE."
datePublished: 2025-01-12
dateModified: 2025-01-12
originalLang: en
section: economy
sections: ["economy","society"]
authors: ["Sami Miettinen"]
tags: []
canonical: https://ai.neuvottelija.com/kuuntelija-perintovero-ja-vaurastuminen-roni-arvonen/
---
# Inheritance tax and building wealth | Sami Miettinen on Kuuntelija

# Inheritance tax and building wealth | Sami Miettinen on Kuuntelija

> **Summary:**
> Sami Miettinen as a guest on Roni Arvonen's Kuuntelija on Finland's most hated tax. The core argument is not about revenue: inheritance and gift tax raises around €1.3bn out of an inherited pot of some €7bn, but the damage is compounding cut off at the moment it has the most time left to run. Nobody inherits a sack of cash — they inherit a flat in a place with no market, held in an undivided estate, with the bill due before anything can be sold. Also covered: Sweden's 2005 abolition, an owner economy against a Finland owned by Solidium and the pension system, the euro and the payments imbalance, Poland, and whether Finland needs its own DOGE.

---

## Key Themes

* **Introduction — and what Grok says about Sami Miettinen:** Discussed from 0:00 onward.
* **YLE:** Discussed from 2:51 onward.
* **Owning things is dangerous:** Discussed from 5:15 onward.
* **Finland's most hated tax:** Discussed from 6:50 onward.
* **Is inheritance tax an efficient tax:** Discussed from 11:40 onward.
* **Wool-jumper economics:** Discussed from 12:20 onward.
* **The Swedish model and what abolition did there:** Discussed from 16:25 onward.
* **Do you have to accept an inheritance:** Discussed from 21:50 onward.
* **Who should you vote for:** Discussed from 31:40 onward.
* **Is inheritance tax free money:** Discussed from 48:10 onward.
* **The euro and the payments system:** Discussed from 57:45 onward.
* **What can we learn from Poland:** Discussed from 1:09:21 onward.
* **Do income differences widen if the tax goes:** Discussed from 1:18:55 onward.
* **How to reduce an inheritance tax bill:** Discussed from 1:20:12 onward.
* **Does Finland need its own DOGE:** Discussed from 1:25:33 onward.