inheritance tax

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Recent Examples of inheritance tax Maryland is also the only state with a digital advertising tax, and both an estate tax and inheritance tax. Jeff Abell, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2025 According to Oxfam’s analysis, half of the world’s billionaires live in countries with no inheritance tax for direct descendants. Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2025 The plan also considers eliminating the inheritance tax and doing away with the Inflation Reduction Act’s alternative minimum tax for corporations. Tobias Burns, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025 Lawyers whose field of specialty is inheritance tax. Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inheritance tax
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Noun
  • When values are low and expected to rebound, the long-term appreciation can pass to heirs with little or no estate tax.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Republicans framed their work as preventing a tax increase for most American families, arguing that unless Congress acts, the individual and estate tax cuts that GOP lawmakers passed in 2017 will expire at the end of this year.
    Time, Time, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Presumably calling the estate tax a death tax enhances the negative connotations of the tax.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Presumably calling the estate tax a death tax enhances the negative connotations of the tax.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • South Carolina House Speaker Murrell Smith (R) introduced legislation last month, H. 4216, that would move South Carolina from a progressive income tax code with a top rate of 6.2% to a flat 3.99% income tax, with revenue triggers established to cut the rate to 2.49% in the coming years.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Trump has suggested tariffs could potentially replace the income tax, even though economists warn that tariffs raise far less revenue and fall harder on lower-income households.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025

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