A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers.

United States115th CongressS-3638Senate
Updated: Nov 15, 2018

Summary

Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate for the tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers to 20%. (Under current law, the highest rate is 40%.) The bill also exempts the budgetary effects of the tax reduction from the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules established by the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and the FY2018 congressional budget resolution.

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Timeline

  1. Introduced in Senate

  2. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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