Ronald Marini

During my Estate Planning Attorney’s 30+ years as a senior attorney at the IRS and his subsequent career as a tax consultant, he has seen an ongoing struggle over the rate of tax to be imposed on estates.  Generally, this ebb and flow has pitted Republican Party attempts to eliminate the estate tax vs. the Democratic Party’s attempts to increase the estate tax rate.

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John Stancil

When one embarks on looking at what might happen with taxes, that path is fraught with many hazards. What a candidate says may not be what is actually proposed. What the elected candidate proposes may be modified or totally shot down by Congress. What Congress passes may not be signed by the President. However, I have my crystal ball and can foresee what the future holds in terms of future changes in taxes. Yeah, right. Unfortunately, that crystal ball is extremely cloudy and I cannot say with certainty what will happen.

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