The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ report espouses the position that the estate tax rules should be let to expire after 2012.

Among the reasons list are that (1) the 2009 rules were more than generous since less that one quarter of one percent of the estates incurred and an estate tax and (2) with the step-up in basis a substantial amount of income would go untaxed as there would no longer be a capital gain.  For the full report, click here.

Margaret L. Cross-Beliveau, Esq., LL.M.

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