0 the unofficial name for tax on a person's money and possessions when they die
1 → inheritance tax :
He must have come in for about thirty thousand, besides what he had under that settlement of Roger's, which had avoided death duty.
Ireland being mainly an agricultural country, income tax, death duties, and stamps yield much less per head of the population there than in Great Britain.
On the contrary, where there are no children and no widow to be provided for, death duties might be much increased without causing hardship.
Some nobleman or gentleman, through the extravagance of himself or his ancestors, or on account of the pressure of death duties, finds himself impoverished.
The death duties, especially where a deceased person leaves a large family, already cause much hardship.
It is also free of rates and free of death duty, if it attracts that.
Since then there has been a further increase in the starting point for death duty.
The benefit of death duty, however, goes to very wealthy people who are still coming into farming.
