Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 65A · 6 active provisions
Section 1. A tax is hereby imposed upon the transfer of the estate of every person dying after February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, who at the time of death was a resident of this commonwealth, the amount of which shall be the amount by which eighty per cent of the estate tax payable to the United St…
Section 2. The tax imposed by this chapter shall become due and payable at the expiration of twelve months from the date of death, and executors, administrators, trustees, grantees, donees, beneficiaries and surviving joint owners shall be and remain liable for the tax until it is paid. If the tax is not paid when due,…
Section 3. If after the payment of the tax under this chapter there shall become payable a tax under chapter sixty-five upon any future interest in any property owned by such decedent or subject to such tax as a part of or in connection with his estate, such part of the tax paid under this chapter as is attributable to…
Section 4. The provisions of chapters sixty-two C and sixty-five relative to the determination, certification and collection of the tax imposed by chapter sixty-five, relative to the refund or recovery of taxes assessed and collected without authority of law and relative to the determination of questions concerning the…
Section 5B. The probate court having jurisdiction of the estate of a decedent, or of any trust or person affected by sections five and five A, and by this section, or any of them, shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all questions arising under said sections, and to make apportionments and prorations, determin…
Section 6. If the amount of tax imposed by Title III of said revenue act or any subsequent federal revenue act shall be increased or decreased as affecting an estate taxable hereunder subsequent to the payment of the tax on account of such estate imposed by section one of this chapter the tax imposed upon such estate h…