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Estate taxes, also known as inheritance or death taxes, are taxes on an individual's right to transfer property at death.
Butler Snow LLP

IRS Only Sending Estate Tax Closing Letters on Request

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Open the estate, marshal the decedent’s assets, file the estate tax return, pay estate taxes and debts, receive the estate tax closing letter from the IRS, and distribute the remaining assets. While overly simplistic, this...more

Williams Mullen

Account Transcript May Serve As Estate Tax Closing Letter

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An estate tax closing letter is meant to evidence that the IRS has accepted the filing of an estate tax return and that the federal tax liabilities are satisfied, allowing the executor of the estate to close out the estate...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

IRS: Transcript Can Be Alternative to Estate Tax Closing Letter

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Back in August, we wrote about how the IRS would no longer automatically issue closing letters for filed Form 706, United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Returns. Instead, the IRS will only issue closing...more

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