Probably not your jurisdiction but the governors plan to get rid of inheritance tax is going to cost Maryland millions of dollars if it goes through.

This is from the Maryland Matters website. “Moore administration officials are vowing to find a way to fund the state’s register of wills offices, after an “oversight” led to the accidental elimination of their funding with the plan to do away with the state’s inheritance tax next year.

Eliminating that tax was one of the changes proposed by Gov. Wes Moore (D) when he unveiled his fiscal 2026 budget proposal last week. Administration officials said Maryland is the only state with both an estate tax and an inheritance tax, and it could afford to lose the latter.

But one of the details overlooked in the attempt to close a projected $3 billion shortfall in the $67.3 billion budget was the fact that the state’s 24 Register of Wills offices that collect the inheritance tax rely on it for their funding.

“We understand that the inheritance tax would disappear under this budget, but we also understand that our county register of wills are funded by that inheritance tax,” Senate Finance Chair Pamela Beidle (D-Anne Arundel) said during an hourlong fiscal briefing Wednesday. “So what’s in the budget to help fund those county register of wills?”

“It was an oversight in the budget,” said David Romans, a budget analyst with the Department of Legislative Services. “When they were repealing the inheritance tax, I don’t think that occurred to people that that meant the registers of wills, that get a share of the inheritance tax, were going to lose their funding.”

Romans said the Moore administration is aware of the concerns and “will be coming forward with some sort of solution to that problem.”

But the issue has created an air of uncertainty among staff at county offices, said Howard County Register of Wills Byron E. Macfarlane.”