Estate Tax

UFE's partners in estate tax advocacy, Robert Rubin and Julian Robertson, urge Wall Street Journal readers to demand that Congress brings back the estate tax.

Abigail Disney, filmmaker, philanthropist and friend of UFE, shares the story of how government and taxation made her family's good fortune possible in USA Today.

Responsible Wealth Director Mike Lapham talks taxes, wealth and philanthropy with Robin Young on NPR's "Here & Now."

Jim Amaral, owner of Maine's Borealis Breads, slams conservatives' misappropriation of small businesspeople as poster puppets against the estate tax. He tells us why they're dead wrong.

Heiress, filmmaker and philanthropist, Abigail Disney–also a UFE Estate Tax Teleconference speaker–lambastes NY Gov. David Paterson's new tax law that places limits on charitable deductions for high earners.

Capitalists, workers converge in support of the estate tax. UFE's Lee Farris defends working class families as paying their fair share, demands that wealthy do the same.

An Iowan small businessperson and estate tax proponent provides historical context and passionate narrative in defense of the tax on inherited wealth.

As several ultra-wealthy Americans have passed on this year, the whirlwind of arguments both for and against the estate tax has grown in magnitude. Uncertainty over the tax, according to an estate planning lawyer, has many people "in a holding pattern." But, the greater concern is lost revenue and a tightening vice on the federal budget.

Brian Miller, Executive Director of UFE, likens the root causes of economic inequality to a game of Monopoly--sans the rule book.

Heiress and estate tax advocate, Abigail Disney, is quoted in The Boston Globe, stating that her family's success was the direct result not only of hard work and innovation, but also of public investments.