death duty

English

Noun

death duty (countable and uncountable, plural death duties)

  1. An inheritance tax or estate tax.
    • 2008, Wolfgang Schön, editor, Tax and Corporate Governance, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 133:
      Hardly a working day passes but we are asked if we can help the proprietors of a private company to dispose part of their holdings so as to prepare for or to pay death duties.

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