Definition of Inheritance tax

1. Noun. A tax on the estate of the deceased person.

Exact synonyms: Death Duty, Death Tax, Estate Tax
Generic synonyms: Transfer Tax

Definition of Inheritance tax

1. Noun. A tax based on the value of the property of a deceased person, and charged on the beneficiaries of the estate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Inheritance tax

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by North Dakota State Budget Board (1912)
"inheritance tax HISTORY. "We hear much discussion today of the plan of taxation upon inheritances, and we are apt to gather the impression that the idea of ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"A proceeding could be brought in the form provided by Act March 15, 1918 (Acts 1918, c. 238), for relief against an assessment of inheritance tax made prior ..."

3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"Returns are to be filed and payments made at the same time and in the same manner as prescribed for income and excess-profits taxes. inheritance tax. ..."

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