| 单词 | death duty |
| 例句 | The Finance Act of 1919 called for death duties applied on a sliding scale of up to 40 percent on some estates. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z His will is a shocker, failing to protect her from death duties and leaving the rights to his most lucrative compositions to his "other", earlier family. John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z In the 1960s house and estate passed to the National Trust, because of enormous death duties after his father and grandfather died within two years. Lord Lichfield's photographs to go on display at Shugborough Hall 2011-03-18T21:07:03Z When she and her husband moved into the neglected early-18th-century masterpiece, it was encumbered by staggering death duties, reportedly close to $20 million. AD Remembers: Deborah Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z When he died in 1979, the Inland Revenue sued his estate for death duties, successfully arguing that he was not properly domiciled abroad. Vivien Duffield: The women who thinks it's better to give 2011-03-27T00:06:25Z The Finance Act of 1919 called for death duties applied on a sliding scale of up to 40 percent on some estates. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Another chance to revel in the details of death duties and animal husbandry. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z In 1950, a crisis: The 10th duke died suddenly at age 55, and death duties of 80 percent unexpectedly came due. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Mentmore was sold in 1977 after being turned down by the government in lieu of death duties – a loss still regarded as a heritage catastrophe – but the Turner has remained with the Roseberys until now. Former PM's Turner masterpiece to be auctioned at Sotheby's 2010-03-26T18:00:00Z Until now the only concessions have been from death duties, and the scheme to encourage giving by living owners, administered by the Arts Council, has taken years of argument with the Treasury to work out. Beatle droppings not for sale 2013-05-22T18:10:55Z The great museums and galleries of the US would be practically bare without the generosity of private donors; in the UK, the wealthy typically leave their pictures to the nation to avoid paying death duties. Jeff Bezos: Does US-style philanthropy exist in UK? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z His statement outlines how the team, with more than 40 employees from around the country, is temporarily assigned to death duty. Perspective | President Trump’s expensive death penalty binge could continue next week 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The impact of Lloyd George’s 1909 People’s Budget taxes on land, death duties and high incomes, was made suddenly sharper by the inflation that followed the war. Armistice Day: victory and beyond | Neal Ascherson 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z As I write this, I am even starting to plan ways to minimise death duties. A Point of View: Can you tell if you've got too much money? - BBC News 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z There are also other benefits, especially if the owner will owe state death duties or plans to leave the account to a younger heir. Tax Tips for a Down Market 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Inheritance is a complex matter in Great Britain, and death duties on the Surrey estate—some 400 acres of prime Home Counties territory—were immense. The Duchess of Roxburghe's Fishing Rods, and Her 300K Diamond Tiara, On the Sotheby's Block 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z In England, death duties date to 1894 and they still are big enough to figure in the U.K. budget. Downton Abbey Season 5, After Taxes 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z When her husband's father died in 1950, aged just 55, he left a vast estate and huge death duties, which would not have been due had he survived for another four months. Obituary: Dowager Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Of course, I cannot as yet estimate the value of the whole estate, but the death duties will make a nice fortune—a very nice fortune. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z For the tax levied on the estate of deceased persons, and sometimes called “death duty,” see Succession Duty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z In the first place he tries to evade the death duties as far as possible; and these fall upon him rather heavily, as he was related to the deceased only by marriage. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z In 1894 he introduced and carried a memorable budget, which equalized the death duties on real and personal property. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The cost of maintenance soared while death duties depleted the owners’ capital; the servants found better-paying jobs in manufacturing. Buttonwood: Not in front of the servants 2011-12-15T16:00:45Z In those lands of perpetual summer no death duties have to be paid to a Chancellor of the Exchequer, as in this island of fog and mist. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Of a progressive income tax or the more equitable arrangement of the death duties from a party which has become increasingly attractive to the large capitalists? Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z An increase of the scale of graduation of the death duties, so as to fall more heavily on large inheritances? Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z In 1888 an attempt was made to equalize the rates of the death duties as between property which paid the probate and legacy duties, and property which paid succession duty only. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z It is the strongest instrument known in the law and avoids the death duties.” The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z It is that, deprived of the money required for income tax and death duties, the more prosperous citizens will be compelled to dismiss some of their servants. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The death duties were denounced as robbery, because they implied that the right to benefit by inheritance was conditional upon a social sanction. The Acquisitive Society Stamp duties—imitated from Holland—were adopted in 1694 and extended in 1698: they mark the beginnings of the modern duties on transactions and the “death duties.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Not only is the price of rejuvenation extortionate in itself, but also, by a whim of the legislature, we are declared dead and the burden of 'death duty' falls on our estates. Rich Living Yes," I agreed; "I suppose the income-tax people, or whoever the fiends are that assess heirs for death duties, would not have accepted any old estimates. The Brightener Paine's suggestions for social reform were of little immediate importance, and it was a hundred years before the first of them, a graduated death duty, was passed into law. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z In February, 1908, Mme Musurus took out letters of administration in England, and proceeded to pay the debts and the death duties payable in respect of the property in this country. International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes Jim did not reply to this, but he said presently, "If it wasn't for the death duties I should have hoped to be married before this." The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons The principal items of revenue are customs and excise, land and house tax, stamps, railways, legal fees, the state lottery and death duties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" In his references to Parliamentary life he mentions that Gladstone, when he proposed to abolish the Income Tax, told him that he intended to meet the deficiency partly by increase of the death duties. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 It carried the principle of graduation to a further point, both in income tax and in death duties, and it imposed for the first time a tax upon the natural monopoly of land. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z They don’t pay income tax, or for that matter death duties.” The Red Hand of Ulster Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular tax haven. The 2008 CIA World Factbook Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular tax haven. The 2007 CIA World Factbook The principle of the graduated death duties was Harcourt's; but it was Milner who worked out the elaborate system which rendered his ideas coherent, and enabled them eventually to be put into effect. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 Oh, quite a lot if it wasn't for these confounded death duties. Once a Week "But I think it's sometimes more than a shilling in the pound; I've heard my brother say so; and as for the death duties, it's more than your life's worth to die." Lady Betty Across the Water Paine urged the taxation of land values—the payment to the community of a ground-rent—and argued for death duties as "the least troublesome method" of raising revenue. The Rise of the Democracy Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular tax haven. The 2007 CIA World Factbook A scheme of death duties and of heavy graduated taxes upon irresponsible incomes, with, perhaps, in addition, a system of terminable liability for borrowers, will probably suffice to control the growth of this creditor elephantiasis. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought Will they not sink, crushed by the load of material cares, into early graves, followed there even by the unrelenting hand of the death duties collector? Liberalism and the Social Problem It meant the whole kindling social programme of Old Age pensions, Health and Unemployment insurance, increased income tax and an enlarged death duty. The War After the War It is being done every day for the purpose of death duties, transfer on sale, etc. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 He finally prepared an involved case, partly depending on the death duties that had already been paid when Joanna inherited Alce's farm, and which he said ought to be considered in calculating increment value. Joanna Godden In fact they levied in a rough way the high 'death duties' so much admired by Radicals with small expectations. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official One would suppose from what one hears in London and from the outcry that is raised, that the whole of the death duties were collected from the peers and from the county families. Liberalism and the Social Problem 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. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union When a man is dead, he is dead, and in estimating the death duty you have not to bother about how long he is going to live! Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 I should have done a little more to start with—for the people I mean; but the death duties are the devil. The Spinners On the contrary, where there are no children and no widow to be provided for, death duties might be much increased without causing hardship. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War Some nobleman or gentleman, through the extravagance of himself or his ancestors, or on account of the pressure of death duties, finds himself impoverished. Vanishing England Of course the death duties will have to be paid, but your father always kept a considerable amount of money at call. The Lion's Share "His death duties will be worth raking in!" The Mating of Lydia Supertax, death duties, and taxes on unearned increment do a little to diminish the wealth of the few: old age pensions, national insurance, and workmen's compensation do something towards mitigating the poverty of the poor. The History of the Fabian Society The death duties, especially where a deceased person leaves a large family, already cause much hardship. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War There are the death duties, of course, but half my father's money goes with the place, and Lawrence will stay with us for the present, so there is his share as well. The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Finance Act of 1894, with its great changes in the death duties, overshadowed all other acts of that year both in its immediate effects and in its far-reaching consequences. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 And some of the death duties have been paid. Delia Blanchflower But of course there's an old place to keep up, and the death duties are very heavy. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life In particular, revise the provisions as to income tax and death duties, so as to increase revenue without adding to the hardships and burdens due to the present conditions. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War It was a note about the death duties which had been collected in England during 1910, and it gave a list of about twenty estates on which large sums had been paid. An Adventure with a Genius There love means marriage settlements, death, death duties. Howards End There love means marriage settlements, death, death duties.� Howards End Light tax and death duties make the island a popular tax-haven. The 1998 CIA World Factbook It was a good subject, for J. P. was interested in the question of death duties. An Adventure with a Genius One of the secretaries seized an opportunity to refer to the British death duties. An Adventure with a Genius |
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