TRANSFER TAX

I. (noun)

Meaning:

Any tax levied on the passing of title to property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("transfer tax" is a kind of...):

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transfer tax"):

death duty; death tax; estate tax; inheritance tax (a tax on the estate of the deceased person)