3/12/08 Kyl Estate Tax Amendment Would Cost Nearly as Much as Estate Tax Repeal

10/1/07 An Unlimited Estate Tax Exemption For Farmland Unnecessary, Open to Abuse, and Likely to Hurt, Rather Than Help, Family Farmers

Revised 8/30/07 State Taxes on Inherited Wealth Remain Common: 23 States Levy an Estate or Inheritance Tax

1/9/07 Research Findings Cast Doubt on Argument That Estate Taxes Harm State Economies

Revised 8/30/06 Since Last Minimum Wage Increase, Congress Has Reduced Estate Tax Burdens Eight Times

8/9/06 Combined Effect of Senate Proposals Would Be to Finance Near-Repeal of the Estate Tax With Cuts in Medicare, Veterans Benefits, School Lunches, and Other Programs

Revised 8/3/06 Comparing the House Minimum Wage and Estate Tax Proposals: Who Benefits and By How Much?

Revised 8/3/06 Latest Data on Minimum Wage Workers and Taxable Estates, by State

8/2/06 New House Estate Tax Plan Features Same Low Effective Tax Rates as Earlier Version: Proposal’s Benefits Would Go Primarily to Largest Estates

7/28/06 House Estate Tax Proposal Has Essentially the Same Large Long-Term Cost As Earlier Version: Phase-Ins Mask Costs, But Underlying Policy Remains Unchanged

7/28/06 Statement: House Leadership Invokes “Martial Law,” Forcing Members to Vote on Key Bills Without Full Knowledge of What They Are Voting On: Move Represents Erosion of the Democratic Process

6/26/06 Combined Effect of Bills Moving In the Senate Would Be To Finance Near-Repeal of The Estate Tax With Cuts In Medicare, Veterans Benefits, School Lunches, and Other Programs

6/23/06 Policy Points: New Estate Tax "Compromise" Even Costlier Than Previous One

Revised 6/23/06 Thomas Estate Tax Proposal Still “Near Repeal”: Instead of Compromising, Proposal Tries to Have It Both Ways

Revised 6/23/06 High Cost of Thomas Proposal Reflects the Low Effective Tax Rates Estates Would Face Proposal’s Benefits Would Go Primarily to Largest Estates

Revised 6/23/06 Estate Tax "Compromise" Proposals May Endanger State Estate and Inheritance Taxes » With State Data

Revised 6/15/06 The High Cost of Estate Tax Repeal

6/14/06 New Estate Tax Anecdotes Dredge Up Old Myth That the Estate Tax Claims Half of an Estate

6/9/06 New Joint Committee On Taxation Estimates of Estate Tax Repeal Show Slightly Higher Costs

6/9/06 New Joint Tax Committee Estimates Show Modified Kyl Proposal Still Very Costly: True Cost Partially Masked

Revised 6/9/06 Cost of Estate Tax Compliance Does Not Approach the Total Level of Estate Tax Revenue

6/8/06 Estate Tax Repeal Would Decrease National Saving: Long-Run Impact on Economy Negligible and Possibly Negative

6/7/06 New Variant of Kyl Proposal with Graduated Rate Structure Still Virtually Tantamount To Repeal

6/7/06 Estate Tax Repeal - or Slashing The Estate Tax Rate - Would Substantially Reduce Charitable Giving

6/6/06 Excerpts from Bill Gates, Sr., during a June 1 CBPP conference call briefing

6/2/06 The Coming Estate-Tax Showdown: Repeal, So-Called “Compromise,” Or Real Reform?

Revised 6/2/06 Estate Tax "Compromise" With 15 Percent Rate Is Little Different Than Permanent Repeal

Revised 6/2/06 The State of the Estate Tax as of 2006

9/22/05 An Estate Tax With A 15 Percent Tax Rate Does Not Represent A Reasonable Compromise

7/22/05 Greenspan Rejects Estate Tax Repeal Without Offsets

revised 7/19/05 Many States Are Decoupling from the Federal Estate Tax Cut

7/11/05 CBO Finds Tiny Number Of Farms Face Estate Tax

7/8/05 Deficits Frame Coming Debate On Estate Tax

6/17/05 Why The Estate Tax Is Not "Double Taxation"

6/14/05 Cost Of Estate Tax Compliance Does Not Approach The Total Level Of Estate Tax Revenue

4/20/05 Brief Overview: Estate Tax "Compromise" May Differ Little From Permanent Repeal

4/12/05 House to Vote on Permanent Repeal of Estate Tax

3/16/05 Estate Tax Reform Could Raise Much-Needed Revenue: Some Reform Options With Low Tax Rates Raise Very Little Revenue

8/3/04 New CBO Study Finds That Estate Tax Repeal Would Substantially Reduce Charitable Giving

2/18/04 Assessing the Impact of State Estate Taxes

6/17/03 Permanent Repeal Of The Estate Tax Would Be Costly, Yet Would Benefit Only A Few, Very Large Estates

3/17/03 How States Are Retaining A State Estate Tax: Legislative Language Used

Revised 2/4/03 Why States Should Act Now to Preserve Their Estate and Inheritance Taxes

Revised 2/4/03 States Can Retain Their Estate Taxes Even as the Federal Estate Tax Is Phased Out

5/14/01 Estate Tax Repeal and the Top Income Tax Rate Cut: A State-by-State Look at Who Would Benefit

5/3/01 If Estate Tax Is Repealed, Repeal of Gift Tax Would Not Be Far Behind

Revised 4/4/01 Lower-Cost Estate Tax Repeal Reflects Slow Phase-In

3/15/01 Can Capital Gains Carry-Over Basis Replace The Estate Tax?

2/26/01 4,500 Very Large Estates Would Receive as Much in Annual Tax Reductions under Bush Plan as 140 Million Americans » Press Release

Revised 2/6/01 Estate Tax Repeal: A Costly Windfall