Noun:

వారసత్వ ఆదాయం, వారసత్వ పన్ను, వారసత్వం,

death duty's Usage Examples:

Copyholds very commonly required the payment of a type of death duty called an heriot to the lord of the manor upon the decease of the copyholder.

momentarily inherited the peerage of Baron Stamp and the family had to pay death duty twice.

For historical reasons, the term death duty is still used colloquially (though not legally) in the UK and some Commonwealth.

said to have sold 40 acres in East Marylebone in anticipation of high death duty obligations.

"Coventry landed gentry downsize as death duty bill arrives".

It is comparable to a death duty or inheritance tax.

Maral or marala (death duty) is an unpopular tax system which was practiced in Sri Lanka.

The tax is sometimes referred to, formally or informally, as a death duty.

Synonyms:

light,

Antonyms:

heavy-duty, dark,