inheritance tax

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Recent Examples of inheritance tax States With Inheritance Taxes A state inheritance tax is levied on the individuals who receive assets from a deceased person's estate. Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025 When a 55% inheritance tax threatened his hold on the team, the younger Irsay found enough cash to keep the family business. CBS News, 21 May 2025 Further, many of these jurisdictions also have attractive tax policies including low business taxes, no wealth tax, capital gains tax or inheritance tax, and in several jurisdictions there is no income tax (automatic download). Jean Francois Harvey, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 The government has repeatedly said there will be no u-turn on the inheritance tax policy. Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inheritance tax
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Noun
  • The Gem State doesn’t have gift or inheritance taxes, and its estate tax for deaths expired in 2004, according to the Idaho State Tax Commission.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Estate, Adoption and Child Care Benefits Expanded Estate planning also sees a significant change, with the federal estate tax exclusion climbing to $15 million for those who die in 2026, up from $13,990,000 the year before.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 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
  • 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
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

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