Estate Tax Complexity Illustrated by the 2010 "Voluntary" Estate Tax

Executors of 2010 estates had an unusual choice: either to file an estate tax return and possibly pay a 35% estate tax on amounts above $5 million or instead to choose to have assets pass without an estate tax but with a carryover in basis. The data are now in, and we can see that on average, execut...

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Main Authors: Gordon, Robert (Author), Joulfaian, David (Author), Poterba, James Michael (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Poterba, James (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institutional Investor Journals, 2018-04-13T15:02:27Z.
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