Pre-Owned 9 Ways to Avoid Estate Taxes (Paperback) by Mary Randolph, Denis Clifford

9780873374668. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 240. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations. There are plenty of things in life we all want to avoid: telephone solicitors, holiday fruitcake, extended dental work-and more taxes. 9 Ways to Avoid Estate Taxes takes care of the taxes part. This helpful Quick & Legal book presents nine major methods people can use to avoid, or reduce, Federal estate taxes. These are the taxes that kick in when an estate exceeds $650,000. And the taxes are steep -- rates start at 37% and go up to 55%. The book's tax avoidance methods include: making gifts of under $10,000 giving or leaving property to a spouse establishing a Bypass (AB) Trust establishing a QTIP Trust contributing to charity transferring ownership of one's life insurance policies.Written by two experts in estate planning, 9 Ways to Avoid Estate Taxes can save one's family and heirs thousands of dollars and hours of tax-time confusion.