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An Unlimited Estate Tax Exemption For Farmland Unnecessary, Open to Abuse, and Likely to Hurt, Rather than Help, Family Farmers
October 1, 2007
There is overwhelming evidence that the estate tax has never posed a significant problem for farmers. According to the Congressional Budget Office, only 1,659 farmers nationwide owed any estate tax in 2000, when the estate tax exemption stood at just one-third of its current level.[1] Some 1,521 of these estates — or 92 percent of them — had liquid assets that exceeded … -
Research Findings Cast Doubt on Argument That Estate Taxes Harm State Economies
January 9, 2007
In June 2001, President Bush signed federal legislation to phase out the federal estate tax. This legislation repeals the federal estate tax by 2010 and also effectively repealed by 2005 the state “pickup” taxes through which states share in federal estate tax collections. States can prevent this loss of revenue by …
