Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:28AM
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> Most of it, yes, in the form of estate taxes.
Estate taxes in the US are 40% and the first ~$5 million in value is exempt. So its impossible to lose most of any estate to estate taxes in the US, and very few estates (0.14% [1]) are subject to any estate tax at all.
Estate taxes in the US are 40% and the first ~$5 million in value is exempt. So its impossible to lose most of any estate to estate taxes in the US, and very few estates (0.14% [1]) are subject to any estate tax at all.
[1] http://www.cbpp.org/files/estatetaxmyths.pdf