Estate & Inheritance Tax Calculator

On median home price (estate context), the gap between the highest and lowest state is $837,000 (Hawaii) versus $183,000 (West Virginia) — a 4.6x spread. The median state sits at $342,000, and the middle half of states falls between $272,000 and $476,000.

That spread is the reason this site publishes per-state answers instead of one national average: an average of $342,000 describes 6 of 50 states well and materially misstates the rest.

U.S. has no state estate tax, so only the federal exemption of $13,990,000 applies and the overwhelming majority of estates owe nothing at all.

U.S. levies no inheritance tax, so heirs are not taxed on what they receive.

Only a minority of states levy an estate or inheritance tax at all. Each has its own exemption threshold and its own graduated rate schedule, and inheritance tax additionally varies by the heir’s relationship to the decedent. Most states genuinely have NO page-worthy calculation, which is itself the answer and is stated plainly rather than padded.

Most calculator sites publish one page per state that repeats the same text with the name swapped. This one publishes a page only where the answer actually changes: 2 pages cover all 50 states, because 48 states produce an answer identical to another state's. The build measures every page against its siblings and fails if any two converge, so that property is enforced rather than intended.

Calculations run entirely in your browser — nothing you type is transmitted or stored. See methodology for the formulas and sources for provenance and vintages.