Soak-Up Tax at Law Glossary

What is it? Also known as a sponge tax; this soaks-up the allowable federal estate tax credit for state death taxes for many states. The 2001 changes to the estate tax has repealed the death tax credit, so Massachusetts has set the state estate tax at the same ra

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