Show INHERITANCE TAX PRONOUNCED MOST EQUITABLE PLAN Officer Having Collections in Charge Cites Facts 0 A. A In collection of tho Iho inheritance tax which I believe one of the most equitable equit able ablo systems of taxation there thero occasionally occasionally occa occa- comes conies up a a. question that re requires requires requires re- re quires much work worl to solve said D D. M. M I Draper assistant attorney general who has the collection of or inheritance taxes In hand yesterday During the Influenza epi epidemic emic we had a case in which a family was annihilated continued Mr tr Ir Dra Dra- per The Th father went first followed b by tho the mother and son almost at th the tho same time but the estate descended and from the surviving sur heir inheritance taxes were ere collected from Ironi all three of I th the estates of ot tho the decedents Another case caso similar to this oc occurred occurred oc- oc in Idaho where hero a family was practically all aU killed In iii an automobile accident but an Inheritance tax was collected from the estates of ot four of or those who hO perished In the accident 1 We Ve have hav a case now pending In which a 3 man In the east owner of or a considerable block of Union Pacific railroad stock died and tho the stock went to his brother Pending tho collection of ot the Inheritance tax from the estate of ot the first named the brother died so that Inheritance tax w would uld be due from both e estates tates However under the law of ot Rhode Island where here the estates are arc 1 located ted It Is held that but butone one of ot the estates pay the inheritance lo tax lax and we wc weare weare are aro now In c correspondence regarding tho case case- Locally we wc have ha a case in which estates were practically ally the same in inso inso I Iso so far as ns value is th concerned One however contains a a. largo large amount in real estate the other Is mostly personal and the tho latter will have havo to pa pay the larger amount mount in inheritance tax On Oz tho the face of or It one wo would ld sa say that it was not right but it is Is and in tho the endall endall end all pay what they should As I said saidI I believe e that an inheritance tax is the most mOISt equitable |