SmartMoney just published "Estate Taxes: The Worst Places to Die" and New Jersey takes the number one spot.
16 states and Washington DC have an estate tax seperate from the federal estate tax (which has a current exemption amount of $5 million per person for deaths in 2011-2012). The article specifies that these exemptions range from $338,333 for Ohio residents to $5 million for Hawaii and North Carolina residents:
* Three states have exemptions of less than $1 million (Ohio at $338,333; New Jersey at $675,000; and Rhode Island at $850,000).
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