estate duty
Britishnoun
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Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh said: "Why should siblings who've lived together for years have to pay estate duty when one dies?"
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2018
In close relation with the income-tax is the estate duty, with its adjuncts of Legacy and Succession Duties.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
A general increase in the existing rates of estate duty cannot be made without discouraging thrift.
From Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Hopkinson, Alfred, Sir
When the estate duty has been paid no further duty is chargeable on property comprised in the estate which passes to lineal relations of the deceased.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
By the Finance Act 1894 property of which the deceased had a general power of appointment is subject to the payment of estate duty, even though the power has not been exercised.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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