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.
Of the philosophical relations, some, such as resemblance and contrariety, can give us certitude. Some cannot. Cause and effect is one of the three philosophical relations that afford us less than certain knowledge, the other two being identity and situation. But of these, causation is crucial. It alone allows us to go beyond what is immediately present to the senses and, along with perception and memory, is responsible for all our knowledge of the world.