It’s easy to gripe about the rich manipulating the rules to lower their tax rates, but sometimes it’s better to simply borrow a few pages from their playbook. Although finagling a low tax rate on income — as Warren Buffett talks freely about — is difficult for regular salaried workers, there’s another area where modest taxpayers have something to learn from the wealthy: minimizing estate taxes. Read full article >>
How To Minimize Estate Taxes, Even If You’re Not Rich
Karen Hube, Washington Post
Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:03pm
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