[lbo-talk] Re: death tax

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Sep 3 08:20:58 PDT 2005


Michael Catolico wrote:


>does anyone know if there is some research/data on how much
>inheritance actually passes to heirs annually?

Extremely hard to come by. I reviewed the state of the literature in Wall Street, and the consensus was that 50-75% of existing personal wealth was the result of inheritance, or the appreciation of inherited assets. But no one really knows.

Doug



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