Examples from literature

• He must have come in for about thirty thousand, besides what he had under that settlement of Roger's, which had avoided death duty. 
• Ireland being mainly an agricultural country, income tax, death duties, and stamps yield much less per head of the population there than in Great Britain. 
• On the contrary, where there are no children and no widow to be provided for, death duties might be much increased without causing hardship. 
• Some nobleman or gentleman, through the extravagance of himself or his ancestors, or on account of the pressure of death duties, finds himself impoverished. 
• The death duties, especially where a deceased person leaves a large family, already cause much hardship.