With the recent increase of the 2026 federal estate and gift tax exemption to an unprecedented and astounding $15 million per person (a whopping $30 million for married couples), the necessity of ...

Here's the thing about estate planning: most people don't think about it until it's too late. The stepped-up basis provision has been quietly saving families billions in taxes for decades, acting as a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Just as the Republicans demagogued the federal estate tax issue, it appears that they are trying to do ...