Marlene Engelhorn has a problem that few other people have: she thinks she is too rich. The Viennese woman inherited a double-digit million sum from her grandmother.
The catch: Austria hasn't had an inheritance tax since 2008, which annoys Engelhorn: "I wanted to be taxed, that would have been the most wonderful option for me. But unfortunately that didn’t happen.”
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Marlene Engelhorn, heiress to millions
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Now a large part of the money is to be awarded by a citizens' council - i.e. by 50 randomly selected people.
In this podcast episode of "Inside Austria", Marlene Engelhorn explains why she wants to get rid of her money and what, in her opinion, is going wrong when it comes to wealth distribution.
In the weekly podcast “Inside Austria”, SPIEGEL and STANDARD look together at the big and small scandals in Austria. Together with journalists from both editorial teams, we reconstruct cases and events that move the country. We look into the political abyss, follow the investigations surrounding the Sebastian Kurz case and his ÖVP and provide information about an important Austrian topic of the week.