Michigan · statute · 188 of 1899, Mich. Comp. Laws · 60 active provisions
(1) A tax is imposed upon the transfer of any property, real or personal, of the value of $100.00 or over, or of any interest therein or income therefrom, in trust or otherwise, to persons or corporations, not exempt by law in this state from taxation on real or personal property or not heretofore or hereafter existing…
(1) The terms "death tax" and "death taxes", as used in the 5 following subsections, include inheritance, succession, transfer and estate taxes and any taxes levied against the estate of a decedent upon the occasion of his or her death. (2) Before the expiration of 18 months after the qualification in any probate court…
(1) Where the persons entitled to a beneficial interest in the property are the grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, husband, wife, child, legally adopted child, stepchild, brother, sister, wife or widow of a son, or the husband or widower of a daughter of the decedent grantor, donor, or vendor, or for the use of…
(1) If the total of inheritance taxes levied and imposed by this act upon the inheritance or transfers of property of a resident or nonresident decedent does not equal or exceed the maximum credit for state death taxes allowable to the estate of the decedent against the federal estate tax imposed with respect thereto,…
An amount received by a surviving spouse as a result of the death of a decedent pursuant to a survivor benefit plan, an annuity, retirement plan, or pension shall not be subject to the tax imposed by this act.
(1) The transfer of qualified farm real property to the qualified heir shall be exempt in the amount of 50% of the clear market value from all taxation under this act if the qualified heir executes a farmland development rights agreement pursuant to part 361 (farmland and open space preservation) of the natural resourc…
For a decedent dying after December 31, 1991, for inheritances or transfers not subject to the additional tax imposed under section 2a, there is allowed a credit for 10% of the tax imposed under this act.
(1) The tax and the interest on the tax provided for in this act shall become a lien upon the property transferred until paid, unless payment of the tax has been deferred as permitted by this section or section 2d. If a deferral of payment is granted under this section or section 2d, the lien provided by this section s…
No statute of limitations shall apply to any proceeding or action taken to levy, appraise, assess, determine or enforce the collection of any tax, penalty or interest, prescribed by this act, until the final determination of the tax by the judge of probate is entered, or unless an order has been entered assigning the e…
(1) The tax imposed by this act accrues on the date of death and is due and payable on or before the expiration of 9 months after the date of death for a decedent dying before January 1, 1992 or, for a decedent dying after December 31, 1991, 105 days after the date of death or September 1, 1992, whichever is later. For…
Every executor, administrator, trustee or other person shall have full power to sell or mortgage so much of the property of the decedent as will enable him or her to pay such tax in the same manner as he or she might be entitled by law to do for the payment of the debts of a decedent or ward; except that in cases where…
If any debt shall be allowed against the estate of a decedent after the payment of any legacy or distributive share from which any tax has been deducted or upon which it has been paid by the person entitled to the legacy or distributive share, and that person is required to refund the amount of the debts, an equitable…
Any person or corporation beneficially interested in the reversion or remainder of any property chargeable with a tax under this act, and executors, administrators and trustees thereof, may elect within 1 year from the transfer thereof as herein provided, not to pay such tax until the person or persons beneficially int…
If a testator bequeath or devise his property to 1 or more executors or trustees in lieu of their commissions or allowances, to an amount exceeding the commissions or allowances prescribed by law for an executor or trustee, the excess in value of the property so bequeathed or devised above the amount of commissions or…
A safe and collateral deposit company, trust company, corporation, bank, or other institution, or person having in possession or custody, securities, deposits, or other assets at the date of death of a decedent who was a resident of this state, belonging to such resident decedent, or belonging to such resident decedent…
A safe and collateral deposit company, trust company, corporation, bank, or other institution, or person having in possession or custody, at the date of death of a decedent who was a nonresident of this state, any property, belonging to the nonresident decedent, or belonging to the nonresident decedent and 1 or more pe…
Any safe and collateral deposit company, trust company, corporation, bank, or other institution, or person delivering or surrendering possession or custody of securities, deposits, or other assets without compliance with the applicable provisions of sections 9, 9a, 9e, and 9f shall be liable for the amount of the tax a…
Except as otherwise provided in this act, a safe and collateral deposit company, trust company, corporation, bank, or other institution, or person having in possession or custody, securities, deposits, or any other assets subject to tax under this act at the death of a decedent who was a resident of this state, which b…
Any safe and collateral deposit company, trust company, corporation, bank, institution, or person required under section 9 or 9a to serve notice upon the department of treasury shall serve such notice on the department of treasury under conditions prescribed by the department of treasury.
Notwithstanding section 9c, wherever it appears to the probate judge of any county in this state by petition of an interested party that a safe and collateral deposit company, trust company, corporation, bank, or other institution has leased to a decedent alone a safe deposit box in the county in which the probate cour…
The probate court of every county of this state having jurisdiction to grant letters testamentary or of administration upon the estate of a decedent whose property is chargeable with any tax under this act, or to appoint a trustee of such estate or any part thereof, or to give ancillary letters thereon, shall have juri…
The judge of probate, upon the application of any interested party, including the state treasurer and county treasurers, or upon his or her own motion, shall, as often as and whenever occasion may require, appoint a competent person as appraiser to fix the clear market value at the time of the transfer of property whic…
Every such appraiser shall forthwith give notice by mail to all such persons as he is notified by the judge of probate are interested in the property to be appraised, and to the county treasurer, of the time and place when he will appraise the property. He shall at such time and place appraise the same at its clear mar…
(1) The report of the appraiser shall be filed in the office of the judge of probate, and from such report and other proof relating to any estate before the judge of probate, the judge of probate shall forthwith, as of course, determine the clear market value of all estates as of the date of transfer, and the amount of…
If the state treasurer or the treasurer of any county shall have reason to believe that any tax is due and unpaid under this act, after the refusal or neglect of the persons liable therefor to pay the same, he or she shall notify the attorney general in writing of that failure or neglect, and the attorney general may a…