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Mont. Code Ann. § 72-16-321

(1997)

Primary rates -- amount remaining after exemptions not in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars

The exemptions allowed by 72-16-311 through 72-16-316 shall be subtracted from the total value of property or beneficial interests transferred to any person, institution, association, corporation, or political entity by the decedent. A tax is imposed upon the first $25,000 in value of the remaining amount of the total value of property or beneficial interests at the following rates:

(1) at the rate of 2% of the clear value of the interest in property passing to a person if the person entitled to any beneficial interest in such property is the lineal ancestor of the decedent;

(2) at the rate of 4% of the clear value of the interest in property passing to a person if the person entitled to any beneficial interest in such property is:

(a) the brother or sister or a descendant of a brother or sister of the decedent;

(b) a wife of a son or the husband of a daughter of the decedent;

(3) at the rate of 6% of the clear value of the interest in property passing to a person if the person entitled to any beneficial interest in such property is the uncle, aunt, or first cousin of the decedent;

(4) at the rate of 8% of the clear value of the interest in property passing if the entity entitled to any beneficial interest in such property is:

(a) a person in any other degree of collateral consanguinity than is hereinbefore stated;

(b) a stranger in blood to the decedent; or

(c) a body politic or corporate.

Official Annotations archive.org, 1997 edition
History:
En. Sec. 2, Ch. 65, L. 1923
Amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 48, Ex. L. 1933
Re-en. Sec. 10400.2, R.C.M. 1935
Amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 490, L. 1977
R.C.M. 1947, 91-4409
Amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 696, L. 1979
Amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 202, L. 1981