If your brother lives for at least seven years after giving you the money, the gift will be exempt from inheritance tax. If he dies within seven years, the value of his gift to you would be added to his estate and any tax due would be paid out of his estate.
: Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects Rules for using causal reasoning 1. It can be difficult to establish clear cause/effect relationships 2. This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version.
During the process of causation, matter and motion are transferred from cause to effect. Associated with this is another fundamental feature of causalityâthe transfer of structure from cause to effect (the reproduction or ârepresentationâ of the structure of the cause in the structure of the effect).ausality is objective; it is an internal relationship inherent in things. It is universal, since there are no phenomena that do not have causes, just as there are no phenomena that do not produce some effect.