The phrase "amount of inheritance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or value of assets or property received from a deceased person.
Example: "The amount of inheritance she received allowed her to buy a new house and invest in her future."
Alternatives: "value of the inheritance" or "size of the inheritance".
This can also have the benefit of changing the amount of inheritance tax due, but only if done within two years of the date of death.
But following the release of the prime minister's tax records, Cameron now faces questions over whether his family took elaborate steps to minimise the amount of inheritance tax that would eventually be due on their estate.
There is some empirical evidence about the negative relationship between the amount of inheritance individuals receive and their labor supply.
Let us assume that the amount of inheritance an individual receives is now taxed and the revenues are devoted to useless government consumption.
Degan and Thibault (2016) have modeled explicitly the Carnegie conjecture in a non-stochastic model where the amount of effort (and thus of labor income) depends on the endogenous amount of inheritance individuals receive.
The subsidy on education lowers the cost of education faced by individuals and thus reduces the amount of inheritance that they must receive to pay for the cost of education of their children.
This was proof of the immense amount of inherited variation, and of the ability of inheritance, blended and directed, to take new directions.
Joulfaian (2006) looks at the impact of inheritances on savings, and shows that wealth increases by only a fraction of the full amount of the inheritance received.
An heir to the Jones & Laughlin steel fortune, Phillips (1886-1966) devoted a substantial amount of his inheritance to creating the collection, Mr. Gates said.
Indeed, many academics have argued that race is a social construct – which is not to deny that there are groups of people ("population groups", in the scientific nomenclature) that share a high amount of genetic inheritance.
At that time, President George W. Bush and the Republican Congress sought to repeal the estate tax immediately, but settled for establishing gradual changes, which over eight years increased the amount of an inheritance that could pass free of tax to $3.5 million from $1 million, and reduced the maximum estate tax rate to 45percentt from 55percentt.
