by Arthur Geffen | Dec 16, 2010 | Estate Tax
Once again, the U.S. is debating the estate tax. And once again, partisan pundits and politicians are evoking farmers and family-owned businesses as the true estate-tax victims. Everett Collection Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in the second season of the...
by Arthur Geffen | Dec 16, 2010 | Estate Tax
As Congress stands poised to gut the state tax at the behest of a Democratic president, let’s try a short quiz: We all know the estate tax is a vital instrument of redistributive taxation. But what, exactly, is it supposed to be redistributing? If you...
by Arthur Geffen | Dec 16, 2010 | Misc
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by Arthur Geffen | Dec 15, 2010 | Estate Tax
On paper, a mere 10 percentage points and 2,860 wealthy taxpayers separate Republicans and Democrats in the fight over taxing multimillion-dollar estates. The political differences loom larger. As the U.S. Congress moves to reinstate the estate tax next year...
by Arthur Geffen | Dec 15, 2010 | Estate Tax
The basic insight behind the estate tax is that wealth concentration is a problem. That was true in 1916, when the tax was enacted, and it’s true today, when it’s being neutered. As Ray Madoff explains, the going theory came from Louis Brandeis, who...
