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ESTATE TAX REPEAL!? LET'S
KEEP PLANNING!
Donald Trump's surprise election gives us a tremendous amount of hope that the federal estate tax might finally be repealed. This concept runs in the face of candidate Clinton's proposal to reduce the estate and gift tax exemption amounts and increase the tax rates from 40% to 65%.
While we do not want to celebrate too early, a critical message is that estate planning should continue with fervor! The Donald Trump phenomenon, which results in a Republican Presidency and a Republican Congress, gives us a great deal of confidence that tax reform will be among the items addressed early in Trump's administration. Tax reform could and should include the repeal of the federal estate and gift taxes, and the elimination of the generation skipping transfer tax that has been hanging over our heads since 1976. Read More
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