A tax is levied on the estate of a deceased person in many, but not all, jurisdictions. This tax is sometimes referred to, formally or informally, as death duty.
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Famous quotes containing the words death and/or duty:
“Time is here and you’ll go his way.
Your lung is waiting in the death market.
Your face beside me will grow indifferent.
Darling, you will yield up your belly and be
cored like an apple.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Never anything can be amiss
When simpleness and duty tender it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)