inheritance tax

1. 1.

   a tax on the estate of the deceased person

   Synonymsestate taxdeath taxdeath duty

   Broadertransfer tax

Questions about inheritance tax

What does inheritance tax mean?

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

What is another word for inheritance tax?

Close synonyms include estate 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.