| 41. | If he had not sold the diamond, it would have been confiscated as a heriot, a form of death duty.
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| 42. | And if so, will they pay death duties on its assessed worth, as would happen with any other UK citizen?
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| 43. | A few bad harvests can wipe out a fortune; so can France's notorious death duties, equivalent to American inheritance taxes.
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| 44. | In his third term as Leader, Treatt criticised government cuts in transport services, but supported reductions in death duty taxes.
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| 45. | The house became vacant in the 1920s after the Bowes-Lyon family sold some of its properties to pay death duties.
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| 46. | The 9th Earl had carefully arranged financial matters on the Shaftesbury Estate so that his heirs would avoid death duties.
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| 47. | Death duties and expenses following the death of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde in 1919 amounted to ?66, 000.
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| 48. | In addition to the prospect of huge repair bills, he was also saddled with crippling death duties of ?27, 000.
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| 49. | His estate passed to Algernon, with parts of it being sold in 1927 to the Forestry Commission to cover death duties.
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| 50. | These included the introduction of income tax and death duties which would leave the finances of the Brownlow family severely depleted.
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