The estate tax drag on family businesses Foster, J D.

By: Foster, J D
Material type: ArticleArticlePublisher: 1996Description: 233 - 252 In: Family Business ReviewSummary: This essay considers estate taxes and their effect upon entrepreneurial activity and family business. After a brief history of estate taxes, estate compositions and tax burdens are addressed. Finally, a simulation model is used to quantify the disincentive effect of estate taxation upon wealth accumulation. The simulation model suggests that estate taxes have the same disincentive effect as would a 67% individual tax rate or a 67.85% corporate tax rate. Thus, it would be necessary to roughly double the individual and corporate tax rates to reduce bequests to the level under the current estate tax regime.
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This essay considers estate taxes and their effect upon entrepreneurial activity and family business. After a brief history of estate taxes, estate compositions and tax burdens are addressed. Finally, a simulation model is used to quantify the disincentive effect of estate taxation upon wealth accumulation. The simulation model suggests that estate taxes have the same disincentive effect as would a 67% individual tax rate or a 67.85% corporate tax rate. Thus, it would be necessary to roughly double the individual and corporate tax rates to reduce bequests to the level under the current estate tax regime.

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