April 18, 2005

ISSUE 1059

 

HOUSE VOTES AGAINST ESTATE TAX

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 272-162 Wednesday (April 13) to prevent the tax on inherited estates from reappearing after it disappears for one year in 2010.

The House has passed similar bills several times since the enactment of a law that lifted the tax for a year in 2000. Those bills were never taken up in the Senate.


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