Estate Tax Phase-Out Set to Expire in 2011, 3/11/2010

Summary:

Stoel Rives attorney Kirstin Humann discussed in the Puget Sound Business Journal the implications of a possible restoration of the estate tax at 2001 levels. The tax on inheritance had been gradually phased out under a bill passed by Congress in 2001. However, the bill contained a sunset clause set to go into effect on January 1, 2011. In the absence of further...

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