Many high-end buyers there built large estates by joining together two or three lots, bumping up home values.
There are several methods for sheltering such large estates from ruinous death taxes, but they can get complicated when the values rise into the billions.
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However, some hill farmers and crofters believe the failure of large estates to muir burn every year that has left areas of the land like a "tinderbox".
In the 1970s, a military government expropriated Peru's large estates.
While not ideal for estate planning, this is quite common and can often be used without problems, except in many second-marriage situations or large estates that may suffer adverse tax consequences.
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So Mr Dewar thinks it is time to abolish quasi-feudal rights and to give tenants of large estates the right to buy the land at a price fixed by the government when the landlord decides to sell.
Rangel, of course, voted against the Bush tax cuts, and he is more favorably inclined toward tax relief for low and middle income families (as well as toward government spending) than toward relief for high income folks, investors and very large estates.
Lincolns motive in favoring the Homestead Act and the patent clause (and both together) was to prevent the West from being dominated by large estates and great landowners, so that it might become a society of many freemen and many practical, inventive minds.
She often owned large landed estates in her own name and controlled them through black eunuch servants.
West is still dominated by large housing estates but there are also middle-class areas around Dundee Law and the West End, for example.
Providing a good social and economic mix has also become a pre-occupation in Bristol, where there are many more large council estates - so called "ghettos"of disadvantage - than in Hanover.
Doyle declined to comment specifically on the Koch brothers, but told me the advice he generally gives clients with large, complicated estates including wholly owned companies.
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Critics say it would be better (and probably cheaper) to give ex-public-housing residents vouchers that enable them to settle all through the community rather than rebuilding large, failed estates.
In the ranking of large corporate web estates that we carry out every year, it came 53rd out of 80, and in an industry that provided the top three scorers (Shell, BP and ENI).
Though just a small portion of estates are large enough to incur the tax, the issue is emotionally charged, partly because the levies can force heirs to sell off land or businesses that have been in a family for years.
There was a danger, he said, in building big estates to house large concentrations of disadvantaged people together.
By the time Scott Fitzgerald came to write his book the area contained almost 2, 000 mansions, many with large and well-tended estates.
The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.
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