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Section 7-232 – Certification of Payments

    Each register shall certify to the Comptroller the amount of inheritance tax paid for each decedent for whom a Maryland estate tax return is filed with the register or for whom the register receives a request for the certification from:         (1)    the Comptroller;         (2)    the personal representative of the decedent’s estate; or         (3)    any person required to file […]

Section 7-406 – Tax Payment

    The person required to pay the federal generation-skipping transfer tax shall pay the Maryland generation-skipping transfer tax to the Comptroller on or before the last day for filing a Maryland generation-skipping transfer tax return.

Section 7-233 – Payments, Commissions, and Reports

    (a)    Each month, each register shall pay into the State Treasury an amount equal to the inheritance tax collected in the preceding month, less the commission allowed in subsection (b) of this section.     (b)    A register is allowed a 25% commission on the inheritance tax collected.     (c)    Each month, each register shall file with the Comptroller an inheritance […]

Section 7-234 – Failure of Register to Remit Taxes

    (a)    If a register fails to account for and remit money as required under § 7-233 of this subtitle, then 30 days after the failure, the Comptroller shall notify the Attorney General to put the register’s bond in suit for the use of the State.     (b)    In a suit under this section, the State shall recover:         (1)    the […]

Section 7-302 – Imposition of Tax

    Except as provided in § 7-303 of this subtitle, a tax is imposed on the transfer of the Maryland estate of each decedent who, at the time of death, was:         (1)    a resident of this State; or         (2)    a nonresident of this State whose estate includes any interest in:             (i)    real property permanently located in this State; or […]

Section 7-303 – Exemption

    (a)    Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Maryland estate tax does not apply to the transfer of personal property in an estate of a nonresident decedent, if, at the time of death, the decedent is a resident of a state or foreign country whose law, when the personal property is transferred:         (1)    does […]

Section 7-304 – Amount of Tax

    (a)    Subject to § 7-309 of this subtitle, in this section, “federal credit” means the maximum credit for death taxes paid to any state that is allowable under § 2011 of the Internal Revenue Code against the federal estate tax of a decedent as reduced by the proportion that the amount of the estate not included […]

Section 7-305 – Tax Return

    (a)    If a federal estate tax return is required to be filed, the person responsible for filing the federal estate tax return shall complete, under oath, and file a Maryland estate tax return with the Comptroller 9 months after the date of the death of a decedent.     (b)    If a federal estate tax return is not required […]

Section 7-305.1 – Extension of Time for Filing

    (a)    This section does not apply to an amended estate tax return.     (b)    (1)    Subject to § 13-601 of this article, the Comptroller may extend the time to file an estate tax return up to 6 months, or if the person required to file the estate tax return is out of the United States, up to 1 year. […]

Section 7-306 – Tax Payment

    (a)    Except as provided in § 7–307 of this subtitle, the person responsible for filing the Maryland estate tax return under § 7–305 of this subtitle shall pay the Maryland estate tax to the Comptroller no later than 9 months after the date of the death of the decedent.     (b)    An extension of time to file the […]