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                                 Instructions for REV-1508 Schedule E
REV-1508 EX (02-15)                                         Cash, Bank Deposits, & Misc. Personal Property

                                             Tangible personal property located              part of a wrongful death/survival action
GENERAL INFORMATION                          outside of Pennsylvania is not                  claim are subject to Pennsylvania
                                             subject to Pennsylvania inheritance tax.        inheritance tax.
PURPOSE OF SCHEDULE
Use Rev-1508 Schedule E to report            If any article (e.g., jewelry, furs, silverware Important.A copy of the petition
all gross probate estate assets not          or paintings, etc.) is worth more than          filed with the court for the approval
reportable under any other schedule.         $3,000, or if any collection of articles in     of the settlement and/or allocation, and
                                             one category is valued at more than             a copy of the signed court order must be
                                             $10,000, include an appraisal by an             attached.
FORM INSTRUCTIONS
                                             expert and the appraiser’s statement
                                                                                             If the Department of Revenue has
ESTATE OF                                    concerning his qualifications.
                                                                                             previously reviewed and accepted the
Enter the complete name of the estate as
                                             For cash in banks and other financial           settlement, attach verification. In cases
shown on the REV-1500, Pennsylvania
                                             institutions, report the name and address       where structured settlements havebeen
Inheritance Tax Return.
                                             of the financial institution, the account       accepted or there is an agreement to
FILE NUMBER                                  number, nature of the account (i.e.,            provide payments for a number of years,
Enter the file number of the estate          checking, savings) and the date of death        it will be necessary for the estate to
assigned by the Register of Wills as         balance.                                        submit information sufficient for the
shown on the REV-1500, Pennsylvania                                                          department to calculate the present
                                             VALUE AT DATE OF DEATH
Inheritance Tax Return.                                                                      value of such distributions.
                                             Report the date of death balance value
                                             of each asset.                                  Note.Only the decedent’s spouse,
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS                                                                         child or parent can institute a
                                             Important.Attach copies of state-               wrongful death claim.
DESCRIPTION                                  ments obtained from the financial
Report jewelry, wearing apparel, house-      organizations used to determine value.          TOTAL
hold goods and furnishings, books, paint-                                                    Total all items in the Value at Date of
ings,automobiles, boats, time shares,                                                        Death column and enter value here.
                                             Litigation Proceeds Received
cash on hand and in financial institutions,  Report proceeds received by an estate           Enter this value on Line 5, Page 2 of the
money market funds, salaries or wages,       representative for any personal injury          REV 1500.
rents, rents due, but not collected or rent  claim instituted by the decedent prior to
accrued, but not due on the date of death,   the decedent’s date of death.                   Caution.        IRA’s, annuities and
leaseholds, royalties, patents, judgments,                                                   pension plans that have named
reversionary or remainder interests, IRA’s,  Report any proceeds received from a
                                                                                             beneficiaries should be reported on
annuities and pension plans payable to       settlement of a wrongful death/survival
                                                                                             REV-1510, Schedule G.
the estate.                                  action claim instituted and paid to the
                                             estate representative after the decedent’s      For estates of decedents with a date of
Report all real property situated outside    date of death.                                  death on or after December 13, 1982, all
the commonwealth, which the decedent                                                         life insurance policies on the life of the
had contracted to sell and for which         Include the date the monies were
                                                                                             decedent, payable to the estate or to
settlement had not occurred prior to death,  received by the estate on the schedule.
                                                                                             a named beneficiary, are exempt from
provided that the property is not subject to All personal injury claims instituted prior
                                                                                             inheritance tax.
death tax in the state, country or territory to the decedent’s date of death and
wherein the property is located.             funds allocated to the survival action as

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