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A ballot measure to prevent future legislative sessions from imposing taxes on an estate or inheritance appears likely to pass with Texas voters.

Proposition 8, or House Joint Resolution 2 , would prevent the Texas Legislature from imposing a tax on an estate because of a person's death, including an inheritance tax or death tax.

Ballot language:

"The constitutional amendment to prohibit the legislature from imposing death taxes applicable to a decedent's property or the transfer of an estate, inheritance, legacy, succession, or gift."

The measure would prohibit imposing a state tax on the transfer of an estate, inheritance or gift from an individual, family member, estate or trust.

Critics of the amendment said the state government should not impose an amendment to preven

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