On Jan. 1, 2009, the federal estate tax applicable exclusion amount jumped from $2 million to $3.5 million the most significant increase since the passage of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of...
In an effort to provide uniformity and certainty in the valuation of claims for estate tax purposes, the Department of Treasury issued proposed regulations on April 23, 2007, to clarify that post-death events are to...