Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:33-8

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The returns made by appraisers and all data otherwise gathered by the state tax commissioner, shall be considered privileged communications and shall not be inspected or copied by any person other than the executor, administrator or a beneficiary entitled by the will or by intestate law to share in the estate, or the duly authorized attorney of the executor, administrator or beneficiary.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the use of such returns or data in legal proceedings involving the assessment, collection or abatement of taxes provided for by the various inheritance tax statutes of this state.