[garmaine]

These points largely don't hold true in the USA.

There is a gift tax exemption of $15k/yr, but with a lifetime cap and the total counts towards your estate taxes, so it ends up being paid in the end (assuming you die, and assuming your estate is rich enough to hit the limit, which is a fair assumption for this discussion).

In your other comment you mention how stock can be transferred "tax-free" in your jurisdiction. From your description I don't think it is actually tax-free, just tax-deferred. You still pay capital gains when you sell, no? But regardless this isn't true in the USA either. If I give appreciated stock to my kids, it is taxable by them as income at the current price.

There are trust funds and such that can be setup to gift the stock early before it appreciates and then pay it out later, but this is still a tax deferral scheme. The now-grown child still pays taxes when the fund matures and they access it.