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Article: Estate tax or not, estate plan still needed.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2005
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Byline: Jan Norman
The current federal estate tax is so goofy it cannot survive in its current form. That's the view of Gordon Schaller, tax- and estate-planning specialist with the Costa Mesa, Calif., office of the Greenberg Traurig law firm.
And for political reasons, 2005 is the year when Congress is most likely to fix it, one way or another, Schaller and lobbying groups agree. In many ways, they say, the uncertainty over the current system is worse than the tax.
Dena Battle, lobbyist with the National Federation of Independent Business, predicts that the federal estate tax will be repealed permanently. "It's only fair," she and other ...