estate tax

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Recent Examples of estate tax The measures raise taxes on high earners and large businesses through increases to the capital gains tax, estate tax and business taxes, while expanding the sales tax to new services and eliminating certain tax breaks. Chris Hoene, Mercury News, 14 May 2025 The legislation would increase the child tax credit, create investment accounts for kids, increase the estate tax exemption, boost border security and allow residents of high-tax states to write off more of their income. Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 27 June 2025 Foreign investors with assets in the United States often encounter complex estate tax rules that can significantly impact taxation of their U.S. assets at death. Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025 While gifting over the annual exclusion amount would trigger a gift tax, U.S. citizens do have a lifetime exemption amount of $13.99 million in 2025; thus, gifts over the annual exclusion amount would reduce such individual’s available estate tax exemption upon death. Darren T. Case, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for estate tax
Recent Examples of Synonyms for estate tax
Noun
  • The most effective thing to do would be to restore the exemption from inheritance tax granted to offshore trusts.
    Ian King, CNBC, 2 July 2025
  • But there is no state income tax on Social Security benefits and no state estate or inheritance tax.
    William P. Barrett, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Presumably calling the estate tax a death tax enhances the negative connotations of the tax.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Presumably calling the estate tax a death tax enhances the negative connotations of the tax.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The South Carolina House approved tax reform legislation this spring that will move the state to a 1.99% flat tax in the next five years and then fully phase out the income tax in subsequent years depending on revenue triggers being met.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • While Illinois is the outlier flat tax state among the top five population losers last year, South Carolina is the lone state with a progressive income tax among the five states that gained the most population through interstate migration in 2024.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The recall campaigns were led by those who fiercely opposed the Democratic lawmakers' support for a personal income tax hike proposed by then-Gov. James Blanchard.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 19 July 2025
  • There is no tax treaty with the U.S. barring double taxation, but the U.S. foreign tax credit affords substantial relief and the Montenegro income tax rate tops out at just 15%.
    William P. Barrett, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025

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