Correct. For federal taxes. If total estate was less than $15M(30M married couple), there are no taxes on the estate https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/estate-tax 6 states have separate inheritance tax(KY, NE, IA MD, NJ, PA) WA, OR, MN, IL, VT, ME, NY, RI, MA, MD, CT, DC have an estate tax. You can see that MD has both-what a fun place!! Since you nor the deceased live/d in any of those states, I wont bother wirh the thresholds in each 😉 Typically if there was going to be inheritance taxes, it would be handled by the estate attorney in/around probate(so you wouldnt have to worry anyway, would just get less money). Not to mention that folks who exceed the threshold are often quite creative-lol. Trusts, 19k annual exempt gifts, etc. You can enjoy your inheritance worry & tax free!!