estate tax

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Recent Examples of estate tax This year’s conference examined: How buy-sell agreements impact valuation discounts and estate tax calculations. Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 And in the United States, the estate tax has been gutted by tax cuts and strategies to dodge it. Tami Luhby, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025 That includes estate tax cuts and individual income tax cuts. Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025 Some of the expiring TCJA provisions include lower federal income tax brackets, bigger standard deductions, a more generous child tax credit, higher gift and estate tax exemptions and a 20% tax break for pass-through businesses, among others. Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for estate tax
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Noun
  • While the inheritance tax will be eliminated, the budget lowers the estate tax exemption threshold from $5 million to $2 million.
    J.B. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025
  • According to Oxfam’s analysis, half of the world’s billionaires live in countries with no inheritance tax for direct descendants.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The claim is that the death tax imposes an unfair and costly tax on the transfer of property, land, and other assets from a decedent to his or her heirs and that can decimate small businesses and family farms.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Legislative Changes to Local Death Tax Proposed changes to inheritance tax rules, including potential alterations to relieve the death tax burden on local business and agricultural assets, may significantly impact estate planning strategies.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The flat tax went from being a crazy Steve Forbes idea to being the law of the land in 14 states, and eight have no income taxes at all, with two more in the process of phasing them out as the tax cut revolution continues.
    Dominic Pino, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Iowa flat tax heralded as a model Wednesday, Iowa joins states that charge a flat individual income tax.
    Acacia Squires, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Some taxpayers, the IRS said, may receive their income tax refunds a few days earlier.
    Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The new tax benefit for mothers of two or three (mothers of four are already exempt from income tax) will be phased in gradually from January.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025

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