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Estate Tax Reform Likely Postponed Until 2010
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Major Legislative Victory for Families! Estate Tax Relief on the Way
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Afro American Newspapers: Families need a permanent, certain fix of Estate Tax
By Harry Alford April 26, 2006 Why does the National Black Chamber of Commerce support the permanent elimination or the reduction of the estate tax? Because many of our family businesses are first generation businesses, where children work along side their parents, in...
Death Tax Squeezes Smaller Companies
By the Seattle Times Company Editorial Board May 17, 2005 THE supporters of the death tax portray it as an egalitarian measure that taxes only the rich. But its effect in the real world of business is to squeeze middle-sized companies into selling out to bigger ones....
PATG 100+ Executive Interviews of Hispanic Family-Owned Businesses
By Impacto Group June 1, 2004 Prepared for Patricia Soldano Overview “It [death tax] affects everybody. If I shut down my business, it puts 18 families on the street. These families would then become dependent on the government for support, and it would increase the...
The Effects on Government Revenues from Repealing the Federal Estate Tax and Limiting the Step-Up in Basis for Taxing Capital Gains
By CONSAD Research Corporation June 30, 2003 Approach CONSAD Research Corporation has developed a computer model for estimating the changes in government revenues that will occur under proposals that, first, repeal the estate tax and, second, limit the degree to which...
Women & The Death Tax
By Nancy M. Pfotenhauer April 2002 Women have a special interest in how the death tax affects their families. In part that’s because women are the fastest growing group of business owners and employers. Whether you own a business yourself of work for a woman-owned...
The Death Tax & Gay and Lesbian Americans
By Frank Luntz April 24, 2001 Overview The message to policymakers from this poll is clear. Gay and lesbian Americans overwhelmingly think they and their families are discriminated against by the “death tax,” and they want this tax abolished. Fully 80% of the gays and...