DUTY ON LEGACIES.
IMPORTANT POINT DECIDED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, August 12. The question of whether legacies to step-children are to be subject to suecession duty at the rate of 2 per cent, if the legacies were to grand-chu-<lTen, or at the rate of 10 per cent., wis to-day decided by Mr. Justice Sim in favor of the higher rate. The case w; s one in which the executor of the will of the late Mrs. E. S. Andrew appealed i against the assessment of the Commit i sioncr of Stamps of the succession duty !on an estate of £45.960 left in eqna I shares to the grandchildren of deceased’* ; husband.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1921, Page 8
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111DUTY ON LEGACIES. Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1921, Page 8
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