Death duty

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An inheritance tax or estate tax. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    a tax on the estate of the deceased person wordnet

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