death duty en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An inheritance tax or estate tax.
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.
2008, Wolfgang Schön, editor, Tax and Corporate Governance, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 133:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| death duties | Number=Plur | lexicographic |