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
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
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 John Jay Chapman
It meant the whole kindling social programme of Old Age pensions, Health and Unemployment insurance, increased income tax and an enlarged death duty.
From The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
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 Walter Lyon Blease
