Estate Tax Receives “Lump of Coal” Award

Howard Gleckman has included the estate tax on his top ten list entitled Tax Vox’s Lump of Coal Award: The Worst Tax Ideas of 2009.

Here is what he has to say:

The Estate Tax. Now you see it. Now you don’t. Wait, there it is again. So what if nobody has any idea how to do estate planning anymore. On the other hand, Congress has had only eight years to fix this mess.