death duty

1. 1.

   a tax on the estate of the deceased person

   Synonymsinheritance taxestate taxdeath tax

   Broadertransfer tax

Questions about death duty

What does death duty mean?

death duty means "a tax on the estate of the deceased person".

What is another word for death duty?

Close synonyms include inheritance tax, estate tax, death tax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.