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Our tax law definitions of fair market value are sufficient that I think this is a non critical issue.


You don’t think that before the Constitutional Amendment to allow taxation of wealth is ratified that there will be 1000s of CPAs and attorneys looking for loopholes?

GRATs and IDGTs will look like quaint children’s toys compared to the schemes invented to receive the benefit without formally having $10^9 of net worth.


> You don’t think that before the Constitutional Amendment to allow taxation of wealth is ratified that there will be 1000s of CPAs and attorneys looking for loopholes?

Sure

> GRATs and IDGTs will look like quaint children’s toys compared to the schemes invented to receive the benefit without formally having $10^9 of net worth.

Well good luck then.




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