How to Use estate tax in a Sentence

estate tax

noun

• Then comes the estate tax, which, at 40%, is among the highest in the federal code.
  — Jesse Eisinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2021
• The time to perfect your estate plan and estate tax plan is NOW!
  — Jeff Camarda, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• House Democrats want more wealthy Americans to pay the estate tax.
  — Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2021
• By transferring wealth to heirs early, the rich can avoid the estate tax.
  — Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• The estate tax is assessed at 40% on the biggest estates.
  — Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• Revenue from the estate tax has been sliced in half in two years, said Ben Steverman in Bloomberg.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 28 Nov. 2021
• This year, the estate tax applies to couples worth more than $23.4 million.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• That’s because the gift and estate tax systems are combined.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2023
• Kessler’s real-estate tax issues date back to 2010, Philip said.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 3 Sep. 2022
• Last year, both the House and Senate had differing plans that would have raised the estate tax threshold to $2 million.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• That can be a good thing from an estate tax planning perspective.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• There’s no estate tax for property transferred to a spouse.
  — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 10 Dec. 2021
• The estate tax generally ranges from 18 to 40 percent, which could be a massive amount of total wealth, even on the low end.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 22 June 2021
• Real estate tax bill or receipt for the current year or the previous year.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
• The estate tax and planning landscape today is very different than a few years ago.
  — Andrew Lerner, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• And when people die, that unrealized gain isn’t touched by the income tax, though the estate tax may apply.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• The federal estate tax is a tax of up to 40% on property transferred from a deceased person to their heirs.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
• The assets in the estate (that are not used to pay the capital gains tax and exceed $3.5 million) pay both capital gains and estate tax.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Yes, after all the talk and planning panic, no estate tax changes may be enacted.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• The huge increase in estate tax collection came down to just a fraction of Americans.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• The House is expected to take up the budget next week, and some tax relief such as a suspension of the gas tax and a reworking of the estate tax were among the 1,521 amendments filed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile, Washington, which has an estate tax of 20 percent—the highest rate in the nation—is the most cost-effective of all states with such a tax.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
• President Biden has set his sights on enacting a new death tax on top of the existing estate tax.
  — Chuck Grassley, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
• Lobbyists already expect this piece of the estate tax changes to wash out in the lobbying deluge.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• At the federal level, estates over $12.06 million may be subject to the estate tax.
  — Forbes, 17 June 2022
• There’s no state income, sales or estate tax, and seniors get a healthy break on property taxes.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• But the latest iteration of tax law changes has nary a direct impact on the estate tax system.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• Earned Income Tax Credit, increase the threshold on the state’s estate tax, and increase the state’s child and dependent tax credit.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• Maryland is the only state to impose both an estate tax and an inheritance tax.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• In 2014, the government says, the Adell Estate defaulted on its deferred estate tax.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024