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S 176 116th Congress Senate Taxation Transfer and inheritance taxes

Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act

Introduced: January 17, 2019 Introduced by: Cotton, Tom Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
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Jan 17, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 17, 2019
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act

This bill reduces the rate for the tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers to 20%. (Under current law, the highest rate is 40%.)

The bill also exempts the budgetary effects of the tax reduction from the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules established by the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and the FY2018 congressional budget resolution.

What's happening now January 17, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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