death tax

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Recent Examples on the Web For those with taxable annual incomes above $1.0 million a year, a Harris-Walz administration would at death tax unrealized capital gains at 28% (lower than the Biden proposal of 39.6%) for amounts above $5.0 million maximum, $10.0 million for joint filers. Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 So get rid of the death tax for everybody. Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023 But some, without inflation adjustments, are still taxing estates at levels that haven’t budged for years, meaning more families are getting surprise death tax bills. Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes, 13 May 2022 President Biden has set his sights on enacting a new death tax on top of the existing estate tax. Chuck Grassley, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021 House Bill 2881, filed by representative Shawn Dooley of Norfolk, fixes the flaws of our current Massachusetts death tax. BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021 The real cost of losing senior residents who seek to avoid the Massachusetts death tax? BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021 Anyone who wants to prevent the short-termism prevalent in corporate America should think twice about creating disincentives to long-term planning via the death tax. WSJ, 17 June 2021 This is a backdoor death tax, and Penn Wharton estimates the change would raise up to $113 billion over a decade. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2021

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