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Recent Examples of inheritance tax
Some members of Congress suggested an inheritance tax, others a corporate profits tax, and still others wanted some version of a stamp tax on commercial documents.
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Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Maryland is also the only state with a digital advertising tax and both an estate tax and an inheritance tax.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
While the inheritance tax will be eliminated, the budget lowers the estate tax exemption threshold from $5 million to $2 million.
—J.b. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025
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
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Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Maryland is also the only state with a digital advertising tax and both an estate tax and an inheritance tax.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
While the inheritance tax will be eliminated, the budget lowers the estate tax exemption threshold from $5 million to $2 million.
—J.b. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inheritance tax
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What To Know When someone passes away in the U.S, an estate tax is levied on their estate based on the net value of their assets at death and paid to the federal or state government.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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Having income or estate tax, formal administration, etc.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Presumably calling the estate tax a death tax enhances the negative connotations of the tax.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Presumably calling the estate tax a death tax enhances the negative connotations of the tax.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Since that can have important income tax implications, and because the potential impact of different valuations on beneficiaries, many CPAs or other tax preparers (e.g., the attorney handling the estate) opt to get real numbers.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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The package would cut taxes deeply – essentially making permanent the sweeping individual income tax provisions of Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as well as adding several temporary tax breaks to fulfill the president’s campaign promises.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
16 May 2025
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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,
29 May 2025
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Romania’s fiscal system, which is based on a flat tax approach and suffers from chronically low revenue collections, has left the state unable to enact redistributive policies needed to narrow the country’s huge inequality gap and fix its dysfunctional public services.—
Veronica Anghel,
Foreign Affairs,
21 May 2025
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“Inheritance tax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inheritance%20tax. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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