estate tax

1. 1.

   a tax on the estate of the deceased person

   Synonymsinheritance taxdeath taxdeath duty

   Broadertransfer tax

Questions about estate tax

What does estate tax mean?

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

What is another word for estate tax?

Close synonyms include inheritance tax, death tax, death duty. 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.