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Housecleaning

8 November 2006

Nobody wants a partisan tax blogger. It’s so… impolitic, if you will. So, I’m not going to offer any real commentary about the election on yesterday in terms of winners and losers. You can do your own Wednesday morning quarterbacking.
That said, the face of the House has changed drastically with the loss of 27 seats [...]

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And Down Again…

4 August 2006

Okay, who other than Senator Frist will admit that they thought the newly packaged estate tax reduction/minimum wage increase bill was going anywhere?  Every practitioner that I spoke with saw the tacking on of the estate tax reduction to the minimum wage increase as both a deathknell for the bill and politicking.  Nothing more.
Democrats would, [...]

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Estate Tax Repeal, Take Two

21 June 2006

Earlier this year, Congress again failed to repeal the federal estate tax. 
As many practitioners anticipated (including this blogger), Congress went back to the drawing board to produce a bill which modifies, rather than repeals, the existing tax.   
The proposed bill would:

Reunify the
estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) taxes.
Increase the estate and gift tax exemption [...]

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More on Estate Tax Repeal

16 June 2006

From the Washington Post, an article that suggested that a repeal would hurt the "small rich"…

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Estate Tax Repeal Goes Down (again)

12 June 2006

The Senate failed to garner enough votes to repeal the federal estate tax (again).  For more from NPR, click here.

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Nothing Like A Good Deficit…

16 May 2006

To make you consider even more tax cuts.
Now that Congress has pushed through a $70 million tax bill, some Congressional officials are hoping to reintroduce discussion about a permanent federal estate tax repeal.  You can read more here.

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Haven’t we heard this all before?

11 February 2006

Despite his prior assurances to bring the estate tax repeal to a vote before the end of last summer, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced in remarks for the Conservative Political Action Conference that he would both bring a proposal to reduce or repeal the federal estate tax to a vote in May, and schedule [...]

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