Inheritances Synonyms

Inheritances Sentence Examples

• The chief sources of the general revenue fund are taxes on real and personal property, on liquors and cigarettes, on corporations and on inheritances; in 1909 the net receipts for this fund were $8,043,257, the disbursements $9,103,301, and the cash balance at the end of the fiscal year $3,428,705.

• The rate on collateral inheritances is 5%, on direct inheritances 2%, on the excess above $3000.

• In addition to their functions as guardians of the poor, the parish members have to investigate crimes and punish misdemeanours, settle litigations and divide inheritances.

• He favoured abolishing the Federal inheritance tax, believing that the state alone should have jurisdiction over inheritances.

• Thus an inheritance tax was first adopted by Pennsylvania in 1826, yet sixty years later only two states were taxing collateral inheritances.