inheritance tax

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Recent Examples of inheritance tax The plan also considers eliminating the inheritance tax and doing away with the Inflation Reduction Act’s alternative minimum tax for corporations. Tobias Burns, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025 Only a handful of states impose an inheritance tax. Robert Cole, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 Jeremy Clarkson joins thousands of farmers in London to protest against the partial withdrawal of inheritance tax relief on farms. The Week Uk, theweek, 25 Dec. 2024 Lawyers whose field of specialty is inheritance tax. Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inheritance tax
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Noun
  • This means that an individual can pay an unlimited amount for someone’s qualified tuition expenses without reducing their $19,000 per recipient annual exclusion or triggering any gift tax (or use of gift/estate tax exemption).
    Darren T. Case, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • While the inheritance tax will be eliminated, the budget lowers the estate tax exemption threshold from $5 million to $2 million.
    J.B. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The claim is that the death tax imposes an unfair and costly tax on the transfer of property, land, and other assets from a decedent to his or her heirs and that can decimate small businesses and family farms.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Legislative Changes to Local Death Tax Proposed changes to inheritance tax rules, including potential alterations to relieve the death tax burden on local business and agricultural assets, may significantly impact estate planning strategies.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This raises the possibility that Florida’s lack of a state income tax is not the only—or possibly not even the primary—reason for high-income people to move there.
    Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The Legislature responded by proposing more than four times that amount this session across three bills, including the income tax cut.
    Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The flat tax went from being a crazy Steve Forbes idea to being the law of the land in 14 states, and eight have no income taxes at all, with two more in the process of phasing them out as the tax cut revolution continues.
    Dominic Pino, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024

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