Although Congress has been focused on health care and two wars, virtually everyone agrees that there will be estate tax legislation in the final 30 days of 2009, and the repeal scheduled for January 1, 2010, is not going to happen.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is expected to bring a bill to the floor…
The imminent federal estate tax legislation is on everyone’s minds, and it appears increasingly likely that the legislation this year will be a one-year patch, or a one-year freeze of the 2009 rules (a 45% estate tax rate and a $3.5 million exemption).
According to the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting (“AALU”), an important trade…
2009 has been an interesting year for estate planners. The arrival of 2009 brought an increase in the applicable exclusion amount to $3.5 million (from $2 million in 2008), meaning taxpayers with proper planning could shield this amount from the imposition of federal estate taxes. 2009 also brought the scheduled estate tax repeal for a…
