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.

Translations

inheritance tax or estate tax — see inheritance tax