Article: Hurry up and die: favorable estate tax changes scheduled to disappear in 2011.

Article: Country banker seeks higher threshold on estate ...
American Banker;  March 8, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... estates. "The estate tax certainly hit ... threshold for estate taxes to $750 ... altering the estate tax, Revenue from estate taxes added $12 ... receives from estate taxes and .03 ... counts. If the estate tax threshold is ...

Article: Family limited liability companies can be used to trim ...
The Kiplinger Tax Letter;  May 16, 2008 ;     572 words ...Family limited liability companies can be used to trim estate tax. But they need a valid business purpose other than the tax savings, the Tax ... situations, the transfer is disregarded and the full value of the assets is hit with estate tax.

Article: Buysell agreement does not always work for estate ...
The Kiplinger Tax Letter;  December 17, 2004 ;     619 words ... ... sell agreement doesn't always work for estate tax purposes. Under this type of deal ... set in the agreement. On the federal estate tax return, the estate uses the redemption ... value as a sales price won't fix the estate tax value, an Appeals Court says. The Service ...

Article: More owners of closely held businesses can get estate ...
The Kiplinger Tax Letter;  July 28, 2006 ;     496 words ... ... owners of closely held businesses can get estate tax relief. Rental property needn't have ... actively managed by a decedent to receive estate tax breaks, as long as the decedent owned ... up over 35% of an estate's value, estate tax on the business portion can be deferred ...

Article: Having power to buy trust assets won't cause estate ...
The Kiplinger Tax Letter;  May 16, 2008 ;     392 words ...Having the power to buy trust assets won't cause estate tax woes, the IRS says to a taxpayer who established a trust and reserved the right to acquire any of the trust's assets. As long ...

Article: Selling water rights won't fully eliminate an estate ...
The Kiplinger Tax Letter;  March 10, 2006 ;     580 words ...Selling water rights won't fully eliminate an estate tax break. Special-use valuation remains in place for most of the tract, the IRS says privately. The heirs lose the tax break ...

Article: In Brief: Senate to Consider Estate Tax ...
American Banker;  April 30, 2002 ;     652 words ... ... passed legislation to permanently repeal estate taxes. The agreement was part of a compromise ... Democrats to gradually increase the estate tax exemption to $4 million, or to give ... reinstate or re-enact a portion of the estate tax." Copyright c 2002 Thomson Media ...