Sentence examples for death duty from inspiring English sources
noun
An inheritance tax or estate tax.
Its subjects are ageing, death, duty and love.
Suddenly it emerged that Labour, too, was razor-keen to reform the cordially loathed death duty.
Harrelson's Tony Stone has been on death duty for a long time.
Not a miracle by any means, but an earthy inquiry into death, duty, friendship and honor.
Le Carré's papers are being taken to the Bodleian pending approval by the Government's Acceptance In Lieu scheme in which donors forgo potential partial future death duty in exchange for donations to the state.
With Nicole's help and enthusiasm the Duke managed to pay off a massive and crippling death duty bill and provide the almost bankrupt Woburn estate with ample funds to keep the 350-year-old house in good repair.
"Death, destruction, obligation, duty – Urbain faces it all and yet he still finds joy in life".
SIR You cannot have it both ways on death duties.
She does not pay taxes or death duties.
The prices, he said, were so exorbitant they resembled death duties.
(The budget also included higher death duties and a higher income tax).
