estate tax

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Recent Examples of estate tax Their analysis focused on individual and business tax provisions, excluding changes to the estate tax. Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025 Refusing an inheritance can also reduce the estate tax for the person who does so. Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025 Cape Cod isn’t the first expensive housing market to introduce an extra real-estate tax on the wealthy. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025 And Thomas Paine called for a 10% estate tax to fund old-age pensions and a payment to every person at 21. Time, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for estate tax
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Noun
  • Okamura added that inheritance tax rules have forced founding families to sell stakes, which has boosted market liquidity.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Once approved, residents are subject to Spain’s worldwide tax system and potential inheritance tax.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The loss limit for pass-through businesses is also permanent and the death tax exemption ($15 million for individuals and $30 million for married couples) is now permanent, and the pre-2022 limit on interest expense deductions is restored.
    Rhett Buttle, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The claim is that the death tax imposes an unfair and costly tax on the transfer of property, land, and other assets from a decedent to his or her heirs and that can decimate small businesses and family farms.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The tax break consists of a flat tax of 200,000 per year covering all foreign incomes.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The solution for California is a flat tax, such as the 5.8% proposed by economist Arthur Laffer, who helped design the 1978 Proposition 13 tax cut.
    John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then there’s all the other stuff, including California taxes (Tennessee has no state income tax) and the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • People receiving a state income tax refund have the amount of their delinquent parking citations deducted from their refund.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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