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: North Carolina Estate Planning BlogThe Latest Estate Tax Proposal
By Greg Herman-Giddens
Friday's Wall Street Journal had an article on the latest estate tax proposal, from independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
The proposal would retroactively reinstate a $3.5 million exemption with a tax rate of 45%. Estates valued between $10 million and $50 million would pay a 50% rate, estates valued above $50 million would pay 55%, and estates in excess of $500 million would be hit with an additional 10% surtax. The proposal includes a 10-year minimum on grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), which would greatly reduce the usefulness of these trusts as estate tax reduction strategies
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Don't look for the proposal to become law anytime soon, however. Many estate tax measures have stalled in this Congress and I don't think things will change in the near future.
Full post as published by North Carolina Estate Planning Blog on June 27, 2010 (boomark / email).
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