Senate Finance Chair Sen. Pamela Beidle (D-Anne Arundel). (Photo by Bryan P. Sears/Maryland Matters)
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…