Repealing the Death Tax Would Create 1.5 Million Jobs
Congress will take up debate on the dreaded Death Tax once again in the coming weeks. It will do so because the Death Tax expires for one year starting January 1, 2010. But like the villain in a horror...
View ArticleCongress Considers Steep Death Tax Increase
Leaders in the House of Representatives recently discussed the possibility of extending the death tax at its current rate and exemption levels for one year through 2010. If this proposal becomes law it...
View ArticleHouse Votes to Raise Estate Tax this Week
The U.S. House of Representative could vote as early as Wednesday of this week to increase the estate tax (known popularly as the death tax). The bill it will consider, sponsored by Rep. Earl Pomeroy...
View ArticleVideo: Estate Tax Increase a Killer for Family-owned Businesses
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on a bill that would permanently extend the estate tax (known better as the death tax) at its current rate and exemption level. This extension...
View ArticleVideo: Estate Tax a Killer for Family-owned Businesses – Part 2
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on a bill that would permanently extend the estate tax (known better as the death tax) at its current rate and exemption level. This extension...
View ArticleHouse Votes to Kill Job Creation Again
The Washington Post reports: The House approved Thursday a measure making the current estate tax rate permanent, overcoming the objections of an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative critics....
View ArticleHouse Votes to Raise Death Tax
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to permanently extend the death tax at its current 45 percent rate and $3.5 million exemption. This is a significant tax hike since the death tax was supposed to...
View ArticleTaxes Are More Certain Than Death?
Timing is everything in life. And in death. America’s level of death taxes is a bouncing ball—a political football because Congress is fumbling around with legislation that makes a dramatic difference...
View ArticleDeath Tax Dies Tonight
The death tax will expire tonight as soon as the ball drops and 2010 officially begins. This is good news for the businesses and families the tax plagues. Unfortunately, this triumph may be short-lived...
View Article“Timber!” Look Out for Falling Trees – and Companies – if the Death Tax Hits
Hancock Lumber company has been around for 180 years, was started before more than half the states joined the Union, survived the Civil War and two World Wars, but now faces one of its greatest...
View ArticleWho Profits from the Death Tax? Estate Planning Lawyers.
If you ask attorney Harold Apolinsky who really profits from the death tax, he’ll tell you, “I think I do, as an estate planning lawyer,” but then he will tell you why the tax needs to be permanently...
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New York Times Gets it Wrong on Death Tax
In a front page article today, the New York Times has a story on the federal death tax and the impact its 2010 expiration has on a recently deceased billionaire. The article is riddled with errors,...
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Max Baucus Clears Way for Death Tax Repeal
The federal estate tax , better known as the death tax, was eliminated this year after a decade-long phase-out. Nothing in Washington is permanent, however, and due to a quirk in budget law, it comes...
View ArticleDeath Tax: Why Should the Government Get “Something for Nothing”? (VIDEO)
The federal estate tax, better known by its more accurate moniker the “death tax,” is poised to rise to 55 percent with just a $1 million exemption in 2013 should we fall off the “fiscal cliff.”...
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Morning Bell: 13 Tax Increases in 2013
New Year’s Day was tough for taxpayers. Thirteen tax increases kicked in. The deal that Congress and President Obama struck that finally—but only partially—avoided the fiscal cliff resulted in seven...
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Gandolfini’s Death and the Need to Repeal the Death Tax
James Gandolfini, star of HBO’s ”The Sopranos’ (HBO/ZUMA Press/Newscom) James Gandolfini died of a heart attack last month while traveling in Rome. The Sopranos star was estimated to be worth nearly...
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