Death of Germany's richest man creates a giant charitable foundation
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Klaus-Michael Kühne had no children and lived in a Swiss canton with zero inheritance tax. When he died, his €42.2bn fortune passed tax-free into a decades-old charity, instantly making it one of the wealthiest foundations in Europe.

Klaus-Michael Kühne had no children and lived in a Swiss canton with zero inheritance tax. When he died, his €42.2bn fortune passed tax-free into a decades-old charity, instantly making it one of the wealthiest foundations in Europe.

      • gedfromgont@piefed.caEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        It moved, as planned decades in advance, into the Kühne Foundation, a charity he set up with his parents about 50 years ago.

        If you think that charity was going to feed the poor or something, this does not sound too promising.

      • distal@lemmy.mlEnglish
        22·
        5 days ago

        Charities are famously reliable and that unkills the people who were killed by Nazi Germany for businesses like his