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TomCADem

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:03 PM Mar 2020

This is how Joe Biden will tax generational wealth transfer [View all]

I am glad they are eliminating the loophole for a step-up in basis even if you don’t pay the estate tax. This loophole puts the heir in an even better position then the decedent. By taxing the unrealized gain at death, heirs would get hit at the transfer, regardless of whether they sell the asset.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/this-is-how-joe-biden-will-tax-generational-wealth-transfer.html

Former vice president Joe Biden’s $4 trillion tax plan would raises taxes on higher income households both in life and at death, according to analysis by the Tax Policy Center.

The Democratic presidential contender proposed a raft of tax policy changes that would raise levies on the wealthy, including boosting individual income tax rates on households with taxable income over $400,000, according to the center’s study.

Biden has also set his sights on estates, but is taking a different tack from merely raising rates on wealth transfer.

He would levy a tax on unrealized appreciation of assets passed on at death, the center found.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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