Sentences with phrase «inheritance than the lifetime»

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As a scientist who, as a teenager was enchanted with the concept of a molecule that instructed our inheritance, I am awed and astounded to be among the first to look across the billions of bases of DNA landscape of the black - footed ferret, an opportunity seemingly beyond the realm of possibility less than a human lifetime ago.

An alternative, perhaps fairer tax system, but not an easy one to administer might be to tax individuals at progressive rates on the total amount of gifts and inheritances they receive over their lifetime — or extending the reach of the tax to gifts made more than seven years before death, for example to 15 years.

It was amended by the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (ITA 1984), which essentially replaced capital transfer tax with inheritance tax (IHT), and was further amended by the Finance Act 1986, largely affecting lifetime gifts rather than giftInheritance Tax Act 1984 (ITA 1984), which essentially replaced capital transfer tax with inheritance tax (IHT), and was further amended by the Finance Act 1986, largely affecting lifetime gifts rather than giftinheritance tax (IHT), and was further amended by the Finance Act 1986, largely affecting lifetime gifts rather than gifts by wills.