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What is your disagreement based on?
by maehwasu 9y ago
What is your disagreement based on?
- clavalle 9y agoThat 100% doesn't give a lot of wiggle room. Avoiding estate tax as it stands is incredibly difficult and generally takes decades of planning and foresight. There is already a fairly substantial incentive to avoid it and there is a reason that very smart, resourceful people that number in the millions don't. It turns out that wealthy people cannot just snap their fingers and wish away the law despite the popular myth that they can.
- pjc50 9y agoEven trivial googling suggests that avoidance at current levels is widespread. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iYKXYgSAaLsC&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=extent+of+estate+tax+avoidance&source=bl&ots=AvTXrFKgKv&sig=n6yxUekNQfQBnIR9_Y8X7v0h-lQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOveCoqMDTAhVqL8AKHeETClMQ6AEISjAG#v=onepage&q=extent%20of%20estate%20tax%20avoidance&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iYKXYgSAaLsC&pg=PA311&lp...