Sqrl said:
Its not a different situation. It is someone dying and leaving their estate to their friends and family. Why does it make a difference if I leave $10,000 worth of posessions or $10,000,000 worth of posessions. It is still the final request of a person who has just died and it is being ignored because the government wants to cram its hand down their pocket one last time. I'm sorry but you just cannot convince me that this is "ok".
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The difference is exactly the same as the difference between a guy who makes $10,000 a year and a guy who makes $10,000,000 a year, only we don't start taxing inheritance until it hits $2 million.
Your example is such an extreme unlikelihood that I find it hard to believe that such a thing has ever happened. Has it? Did the IRS heartlessly force him to sell it off to pay the bill or did they cut the guy some slack? The IRS guys are human too.
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