Estate Tax Compromise On the Cards

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WASHINGTON – Some of the staunchest advocates of eliminating estate taxes said yesterday that they could accept, with some reservations, a compromise that stops short of complete repeal.

The reduction under consideration, scheduled for House debate today, rewrites estate tax rates in 2010 and beyond. It responds to a quirky and temporary law, part of President Bush’s first tax cut, that erases estate taxes in 2010 and revives them a year later.

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