QUESTION OF STAMP DUTY.
RIGHTS UNDER A WILL. ("By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The question whether legacies to step-grandchildren are to be subject to succession duty at the rate of 2 per cent as if the legatees were grandchildren, or at the rate of 10 > per cent, , was to-day -decided by Mr Justice Sim in favour of the higher rate. The case was one in which the dxecutor of the will of the late Mrs E. S.
Andrews appealed against the assessment of the commissioner of stamps of succession duty on an estate of £45,960 left in equal shares to grandchildren of deceased’s husband.
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Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1128, 13 August 1921, Page 4
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104QUESTION OF STAMP DUTY. Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1128, 13 August 1921, Page 4
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