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nilram

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5. In the US, inheritance tax is payed by the giver, not the receiver.

Reply to itsrobert (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 01:39 AM

Jun 2016

So his grandfather's estate owes any tax involved. But that's the limit of my understanding about the whole thing.

Maybe the state could make a case for reopening probate, dunno. Complicated by the fact that the grandson is a "young man from Northern Ireland."

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