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There is nothing that you can do on your federal income tax return to adjust or deduct these state inheritance taxes. You are not allowed to deduct them as an itemized deduction on schedule A, because that only applies to state and local income tax, and an inheritance tax is not an income tax.

 

Whether you legitimately owed this tax under the specific circumstances is something you will have to work out with Pennsylvania.