How to Use estate tax in a Sentence

estate tax

noun

• This is not the place to debate the merits of an estate tax.
  — WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• That would raise almost as much as reinstating the estate tax.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 7 Nov. 2018
• As the name implies, estate taxes are taxes levied on the dead person’s estate.
  — Liz Weston | Nerdwallet.com, oregonlive.com, 16 June 2019
• Wealthy homeowners won’t be the only ones to feel the pinch of New York City’s new real-estate tax law.
  — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2019
• Those estates represent about 1 percent of all taxable estate tax returns.
  — Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 17 June 2019
• Oregon certainly has an estate tax (one of the highest in the U.S.) and Washington also has one.
  — Liz Weston | Nerdwallet.com, oregonlive.com, 16 June 2019
• New Jersey had an estate tax, but that was repealed in 2018, leaving Maryland as the only state with both types of tax.
  — Liz Weston | Nerdwallet.com, oregonlive.com, 16 June 2019
• Comerica has made and will continue to make all required estate tax payments in accordance with applicable law.
  — Claudia Rosenbaum, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2019
• The missing pieces include the individual income-tax brackets, the standard deduction and the per-person exemption from the estate tax.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• 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
• When estate tax limits were raised, many lost that bet.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
• Biden would also lower the exemption for the estate tax to $3.5 million and raise the rate to 45%.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
• 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
• An outside analysis found the plan would not add to the federal deficit because of changes to the estate tax.
  — Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• Kessler’s real-estate tax issues date back to 2010, Philip said.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 3 Sep. 2022
• Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a new estate tax reform bill, the For the 99.5% Act, to do just that.
  — Chuck Collins For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021
• 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
• So, the estate tax is taxed on the estate and the estate pays it before assets are distributed.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• The money would come from an increase in the Illinois estate tax, which is levied on the estates of deceased people.
  — Sydney Czyzon, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• And the estate tax was so much, the children would have to go out and borrow a lot of money from unfriendly bankers, in many cases.
  — Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 17 June 2019
• 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
• Maryland is the only state to impose both an estate tax and an inheritance tax.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• The hosts talk about estate tax issues, which are secretly a huge priority for U.S. team owners.
  — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024