Revenue and Incentive Effects of Basis Step-Up at Death: Lessons from the 2010 “Voluntary” Estate Tax Regime
In 2010, the U.S. estate tax expired and executors of wealthy decedents were not required to file estate tax returns. In the absence of the estate tax, beneficiaries received assets with carryover rather than stepped-up basis. Unrealized capital gains accounted for 44 percent of the fair market valu...
Main Authors: | Gordon, Robert, Joulfaian, David, Poterba, James Michael |
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其他作者: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics |
格式: | 文件 |
语言: | en_US |
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American Economic Association
2017
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在线阅读: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109334 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998 |
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