inheritance tax

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Recent Examples of inheritance tax Your state may also have rules on estate tax and inheritance tax to know. Bruce Brumberg, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 In 2024, a proposal to eliminate all property and income taxes in Nebraska, including the inheritance tax, failed to make the ballot. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 May 2025 The estate tax system in the US and the inheritance tax regime (IHT) in the UK tax the estate of decedents. Priya Prakash Royal Esq. Ll.m. Mba Aep Tep, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government added a new wrinkle to the proposal by removing inheritance tax breaks on assets in overseas trusts. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for inheritance tax
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inheritance tax
Noun
  • Plus, the federal estate tax exemption will increase to $15 million.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • For decedents dying in 2026 and beyond, up to $15 million (and $30 million for couples) is exempt from the federal estate tax, and this exemption will be indexed for inflation.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 4 July 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
  • The state has about a $4.6 billion budget, enough to hand out $1.3 billion in income tax cuts this year for middle-class residents and getting rid of the state’s tax on electricity usage.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
  • The income tax resulting from the sale of farmland to a qualified farmer can be deferred and paid in four annual installments.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • While Illinois is the outlier flat tax state among the top five population losers last year, South Carolina is the lone state with a progressive income tax among the five states that gained the most population through interstate migration in 2024.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 1 Mar. 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, 19 June 2025

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