Research, Polls, & Articles

Focus

• In the US, family firms generate 64% of GDP or $5.9 trillion and 82 million jobs or 62% of domestic employment
• 78% of new job creation comes from family-owned firms
• 35% of Fortune 500 companies are family-owned or controlled
• Family firms have higher employee retention rates than non-family firms

Topics

2019

• Cotton, Boozman, Blunt, and Ernst Introduce the Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act for 2019; S176 by FEUSA — January, 2019
• Senator Thune Introduces S215; Bill to Repeal Estate and GST Taxes by FEUSA — January, 2019
• Elizabeth Warren Proposes New Wealth Tax by FEUSA — January, 2019
• Congressman Jason Smith Introduces Estate Tax Repeal Bill HR218 by FEUSA — January, 2019

2018

• Death Tax Election Night Polling by Frank Luntz — December, 2018
• Senator Kyl Again Seeks to Cut the Death Tax by FEUSA — November, 2018
• New IRS Data Reiterates Shortcomings of the Estate Tax by Scott Eastman – October, 2018
• Family Businesses; Jobs and Revenue Generated in the US by FEUSA— September, 2018
• Family Businesses; Charitable Giving; 2018 – May, 2018
• Update and Extend Earlier Estimates of Proposals to Modify The Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes  – March 28, 2018

2017

• Estate Tax Is Hurdle For Minority American Business Owners by Harry Alford – December, 2017
• Support for Death Tax Repeal by Frank Luntz – November, 2017
• Revenue Analysis Of Options to Reform The Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes by Quantria Strategies – September 2017
• As Congress debates repeal of estate tax, why not consider ending the gift tax? by Pat Soldano – June, 2017
• American Voter Attitudes On Estate, Gift, And Generation-Skipping Taxes – January 30, 2017

2016

• Killing the Death Tax Would Resurrect Growth by Stephen Entin – October, 2016

2014 and Earlier

• Frank Luntz Presentation on Women Voters – June 18, 2014
• Frank Luntz Presentation on Income Inequality & Taxes – January 28, 2014
• Impacts on Small Businesses and Families – September 2010
• How the Death Tax Kills Small Businesses, Communities—and Civil Society by Patrick Fagan – June, 2010
• Statement of Terry Neese: Distinguished fellow, National Center Of Policy Analysis Family Policy Center – November 4, 2009
• Let The Death Tax Rest In Peace – August 5, 2009
• Afro American Newspapers: Families need a permanent, certain fix of Estate Tax – April 26, 2006
• Death Tax Squeezes Smaller Companies – May 17, 2005
• Death Tax Chronicle – 2005
• Hispanic Family-Owned Business Interviews – June 1, 2004
• Family Businesses Contribution to the U.S. Economy_ A Closer Look by Joseph H. Astrachan and Melissa Carey Shanker — September, 2003
• The Effects on Government Revenues from Repealing the Federal Estate Tax and Limiting the Step-Up in Basis for Taxing Capital Gains – June 30, 2003
• Women & The Death Tax – April 2002
• The Death Tax & Gay and Lesbian Americans – April 24, 2002
• Post-Election Survey Results, Groundbreaking Data On The Efforts Of The Death Tax – November 27, 2000
• A Declaration Of Independence From Death Taxation: A Bipartisan View – July 2000
• Survey Of The Impact Of The Federal Estate Tax on NAWBO Member Businesses – February 23, 2000
• Policy Analysis: Grave Robbers, The Moral Case Against The Death Tax – October 4, 1999
• Family Businesses In The US Economy – 1998
• An Analysis Of The Descent Distance Into The Defects Of The Estate Tax On Entrepreneurship – June 1, 1994
• Federal Transfer Taxation: A Study In Social Cost – 1993