death tax

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› TAX an amount of money that someone has to pay to the government when they receive money or property from someone who has recently died: Some would like to see an end to death tax. → See also estate tax, inheritance tax

(Definition of death tax noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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