The Inheritance Tax Act of 1916 (Public Laws, Chapter 1339, as Amended): Passed by the General Assembly at Its January Session, A.D. 1916. Approved February 22, 1916, May 5, 1920

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E.L. Freeman Company, 1920 - 26 pages

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Page 6 - Whenever any person or corporation shall exercise a power of appointment derived from any disposition of property made either before or after the passage of this Act, such appointment, when made, shall be deemed a transfer taxable under the provisions of this Act, in the same manner as though the property to which such appointment relates belonged absolutely to the donee of such power, and has been bequeathed or devised by such donee by will...
Page 14 - ... estate or property or interest therein as aforesaid, a return shall be made to the person properly entitled thereto of a proportionate amount of such tax...
Page 21 - ... said appraiser is authorized to issue subpoenas and to compel the attendance of witnesses before him and to take the evidence of such witnesses under oath concerning such property and the value thereof...
Page 14 - ... are dependent upon contingencies or conditions whereby they may be wholly or in part created, defeated, extended or abridged, a tax shall be imposed upon said transfer at the highest rate which, on the happening of any of the said contingencies or conditions, would be possible under the provisions of this act, and such tax so imposed shall be due and payable forthwith by the executors or trustees out of the property transferred...
Page 16 - ... or trustee shall retain the tax upon the whole amount, but if it be not in money, he shall make application...
Page 15 - ... as herein provided. If such legacy or property be not in money, he shall collect the tax thereon upon the appraised value thereof from the person entitled thereto.
Page 15 - Whenever a decedent appoints one or more executors or trustees, and, in lieu of their allowance or commission, makes a bequest or devise of property to them, which would otherwise be liable to said tax, or appoints them his residuary legatees, and said bequests, devises or residuary legacies exceed what would be a reasonable compensation for their services, such excess shall be liable to such tax, and the court having jurisdiction of their accounts, upon its own motion, or on the application of the...
Page 11 - ... by reason of claims made upon the estate, necessary litigation or other unavoidable cause of delay, such tax shall not be determined and paid as herein provided, in which case interest at the rate of six per centum per annum shall be charged upon such tax from the accrual thereof until the cause of such delay is removed, after which ten per centum shall be charged.
Page 6 - ... 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...
Page 25 - No final account of an executor, administrator or trustee shall be allowed by the probate court unless such account shows, and the judge of said court finds, that all taxes imposed by the provisions of this act upon any property or interest therein belonging to the estate to be settled by said account and...

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