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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 205.215

  • Department: means the bureau of revenue of the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, company, estate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • property: means the property or interest in property of the testator, intestate, grantor, bargainor, or vendor, passing or transferred to those not specifically exempted from this act, and not as the property or interest in property passing or transferred to the individual legatees, devisees, heirs, next of kin, grantees, donees, or vendees, and includes all property or interest in property whether situated within or without this state and including all property represented or evidenced by note, certificate, stock, land, contract, mortgage or other kind or character of evidence thereof, and regardless of whether that evidence of property is owned, kept or possessed within or without this state. See Michigan Laws 205.221
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
   Any person shall, upon written request to the department of treasury, be entitled to a certified copy of the receipt issued by the state of Michigan under section 3 of this act for the payment of any tax under this act, which receipt shall designate upon what real property, if any, such tax shall have been paid, by whom paid, and whether in full of such tax. Such receipts may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such property is situated, in a book to be kept by him or her for that purpose, which shall be labeled “Transfer Tax.”