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View synonyms for death duty
death duty
death duty
noun
- a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax Also calledestate duty
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Word History and Origins
Origin of death duty1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
For the tax levied on the estate of deceased persons, and sometimes called “death duty,” see Succession Duty.
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The best Death Duty I know is to do what the dead ask us and not what they'd turn in their graves if they knew of.
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But there they go, wanting to take most of it in Death Duty.
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When a man is dead, he is dead, and in estimating the death duty you have not to bother about how long he is going to live!
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