FEDERAL ESTATE TAXATION: The present Estate Tax Exemption Amount is increased to $5,430,000; this exemption amount may be reduced by certain lifetime gifts. The calculation of the taxable assets includes life insurance unless same has been transferred to a trust. The Federal Estate tax rate is also forty per cent (40%). The present law permits the surviving
Senate bill S2899 has been introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that would establish the federal estate tax rate to be 40% on all estates worth $3,500,000 but less than $10,000,000, and 50% on all estates in excess of $10,000,000 but less than $50,000,000. Thereafter the estate tax rate would be 55% on estates in
As of February of 2010, the United States enjoyed more than a month of complete repeal of the federal estate tax. Before its repeal, the federal estate tax was almost as old as the U.S. income tax which required the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to adopt. The 2010 repeal of the federal estate