Taxation of Legacies and Successions in Massachusetts, with Supreme Court DecisionsWright & Potter, 1915 - 154 pages |
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Page 60 - State, or by deed, grant, sale or gift made or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor...
Page 29 - And while the public charges of government, or any part thereof, shall be assessed on polls and estates, in the manner that has hitherto been practised ; in order that such assessments may be made with equality, there shall be a valuation of estates within the Commonwealth taken anew once in every ten years at the least, and as much oftener as the General Court shall order.
Page 31 - Constitution ; and to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants of, and persons resident, and estates lying, within the said Commonwealth ; and also to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises, upon any produce, goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities whatsoever, brought into, produced, manufactured, or being within the same...
Page 77 - ... to, or for, charitable, educational or religious societies or institutions, the property of which is exempt by law from taxation...
Page 108 - ... in the same manner as though the property to which such appointment relates belonged absolutely to the donee of such power, and had been bequeathed or devised by the donee by will; and whenever any person possessing such a power of appointment so derived shall omit or fail to exercise the same within the time provided therefor, in whole or in part, a disposition of property taxable under...
Page 99 - ... to or for the use of charitable, educational or religious societies or institutions, the property of which is by law exempt from taxation...
Page 47 - ... other than to or for the use of the father, mother, husband, wife, lineal descendant, brother, sister, adopted child, the lineal descendant of any adopted child, the wife or widow of a son, or the husband of a daughter of a decedent...
Page 9 - All existing decrees, laws, regulations, or orders, so far as the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act...
Page 124 - ... a bona fide purchase for full consideration in money or money's worth, made or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor...
Page 9 - ... of appointment so derived shall omit or fail to exercise the same within the time provided therefor, in whole or in part, a transfer taxable under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed to take place to the extent of such omission or failure, in the same manner as though the persons or corporations thereby becoming entitled to the possession or enjoyment of the property to which such power related had succeeded thereto by a will of the donee of the power failing to exercise such power, taking...