death duty
Example Sentences
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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
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
There are a good many pages of Gothic type in the later essays, for Stevenson thought it the proper tone in which to speak of death, duty, immortality, and such subjects as that.
From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay
Paine's suggestions for social reform were of little immediate importance, and it was a hundred years before the first of them, a graduated death duty, was passed into law.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
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
