death duty
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Then along came the Broadway hit My Fair Lady, which has brought in $2,000 a week in royalties, has paid the death duty, upped the estate's value to $2,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against estates valued at �5,000 or less no death duty will be levied.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because a newly adopted finance act imposes an 80% death duty on real property held overseas by any British subject who dies at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
The average British millionaire dies worth about 2,770,000l., on which the death duty would be 415,500l., leaving the agreeable nest-egg of 2,254,500l. to the heirs.
From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis
When a man is dead, he is dead, and in estimating the death duty you have not to bother about how long he is going to live!
From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various
