inheritance tax

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Recent Examples of inheritance tax At the heart of the potential flight are changes to the British tax system, from capital gains and inheritance tax to extra stamp duty rates. Ritika Gupta, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025 In Pennsylvania, a bill recently reintroduced could eliminate the state's inheritance tax. Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025 The standard deduction and inheritance tax exemptions will be cut in half. Ryan Ellis, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025 But there is no state income tax on Social Security benefits and no state estate or inheritance tax. William P. Barrett, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inheritance tax
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Noun
  • If an investor who has not sold the IP expatriates for example, valuation of the interest will be included in determining the investor’s net worth and may subject the investor to unexpected taxes as a covered expatriate, for both income and estate tax purposes.
    Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Their analysis focused on individual and business tax provisions, excluding changes to the estate tax.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 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
  • Buying them en masse has essentially only been taking place since the 1920s—which is to say after the imposition of the Federal Reserve and the income tax in 1913.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • And much of the nearly $1 billion gain would be taxed at a lower capital gains rate, not the higher income tax rate.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To pay for the spending, Pritzker pushed for billions of dollars in new taxes, including changing the state’s flat tax to a multirate tax.
    Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Since mid-2021, six states have revised their tax codes and adopted a flat tax.
    Rea S. Hederman Jr, National Review, 28 July 2025

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