Estates-By-State: The House GOP’s $270 Billion Tax Cut

House Republicans will vote this week to repeal the estate tax, handing a nearly $270 billion tax cut to a tiny number of the wealthiest Americans. In fact, three-quarters of the tax cut would go to inheritors of estates valued at more than $20 million.

To understand just how few households would benefit – approximately 5,400 in any given year nationwide, according to a Joint Committee on Taxation analysis – here is a state-by-state breakdown of the number of estates who are expected to owe any federal estate tax in 2016, put together by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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