{"id":1453,"date":"2019-01-30T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:14:04","slug":"senator-thune-introduces-s215-bill-to-repeal-estate-and-gst-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/estate-taxes\/senator-thune-introduces-s215-bill-to-repeal-estate-and-gst-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Thune Introduces S215; Bill to Repeal Estate and GST Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Thune introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.215<\/a> with 28 Cosponsors; a bill that will repeal the estate and GST tax but NOT the Gift tax and will maintain step up in basis; so, the same bill language he has introduced before.<\/p>\n<p>While we continue to remind legislators that the gift tax must also be repealed, they tend to just introduce the same legislation repeatedly and hope &#8220;it will be worked out in Committee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This bill has been referred to Senate Finance Committee and we will meet with Senator Thune&#8217;s new tax staff on 2\/5 in DC.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions about the estate tax, how to repeal it, or how to get in touch with your congressional representatives, please <a href=\"https:\/\/policyandtaxationgroup.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Thune introduced S.215 with 28 Cosponsors; a bill that will repeal the estate and GST tax but NOT the Gift tax and will maintain step up in basis; so, the same bill language he has introduced before. While we continue to remind legislators that the gift tax must also be repealed, they tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estate-taxes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyenterpriseusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}