Estate Planning - News
- 2010: the year of no estate tax?
Inman.com, CA
According to Chet Burgess, an enrolled agent who owns Brookwood Tax Service in Atlanta, "As the law currently stands, the basis step-up would expire with the estate tax, which is also set to expire in 2010. However, President Obama has already made it ...
(April 23, 2009) - The Fate of the Federal Estate Tax
24-7PressRelease.com (press release)
Under the Bush tax cuts, both the estate tax rate and exemption amount were lowered in annual incremental amounts with the estate tax being completed eliminated by 2010. Prior to the 2001 law, estates valued at $675000 or less were not subject to -- or ...
(April 23, 2009) - Rep. McDermott Introduces Level-Headed Estate Tax Bill
OMB Watch
Washington Representative Jim McDermott (D) introduced an estate tax bill yesterday that is pretty level-headed. HR 2023, the Sensible Estate Tax Act, would create a permanent estate tax with a $4 million exemption for couples and a 45 percent tax rate ...
Heavens to Blethen! McDermott introduces estate tax. Seattle Post Intelligencer
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(April 22, 2009) - Budget: Real estate tax rate will likely go to 60 cents (for now)
Fredericksburg.com, VA
The real estate tax will rise four cents, to 60 cents per $100 of value. With the additional $400000 that the extra penny will generate, council members plan to restore $150000 to nonprofit groups that were cut and put $120000 in the budget for a new ...
(April 22, 2009) - Workshop to be held on special need estate planning
The Community Journal, MA
Fidelity Bank a will host attorney James A. Miller, of the Law Offices of James A. Miller, for two upcoming seminars on special needs estate planning. Miller will explain why estate planning is important for all families but it is especially important ...
(April 22, 2009) - City may add a penny to real-estate tax hike
The Free Lance-Star, VA
BY EMILY BATTLE BY EMILY BATTLE Fredericksburg City Council members will ask for another penny on the real estate tax to restore funding to nonprofit groups and pay for an economic development director they want to hire. That decision would take the ...
(April 22, 2009) - Harris learns more about estate tax law at annual symposium
Gulf Coast Newspapers, AL
The symposium brings in some of the brightest attorneys and advisors in the estate planning and investment fields in the country to introduce brokers and advisors of proposed changes in the tax law, new regulations and new financial products in the ...
(April 21, 2009) - Our view on rewarding the well-born: What deficits or wealth gap ...
USA Today
Congress eyes estate-tax cut This is no time to reduce rates for richest slice of US society. In recent weeks, members of Congress from both parties have expressed righteous indignation over bonuses paid to wealthy executives at some financial ...
(April 21, 2009) - Program will address estate planning
Weekly Vista, AR
Reeves will touch on several benefits of making charitable gifts through a will or other estate-planning mechanism after death. Among the various estate strategies the attorney will explain are ways to control distribution of assets, to manage them ...
LIBRARY EVENTS Weekly Vista
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(April 20, 2009) - Small Businesses and the Estate Tax
Washington Post, United States
According to the editorial, the facts often do not support the claim that President Obama's proposed changes to the estate tax would hurt small businesses. Nearly 60 percent of small-business owners do not believe that Mr. Obama's administration ...
(April 15, 2009)