Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina complains that the deal "raises the death tax" (in fact it would reinstate the estatetax, suspended in 2010 only, at a lower level than planned).
And given the uncertainty surrounding the estatetax, families with taxable estates need to make sure their documents are written to account for that uncertainty.
鉴于遗产税存在的不确定性，有应税遗产的家庭必须确信这些文件都考虑了不确定性的存在。
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The top estatetax rate earlier in this decade ranged between 45% and 55%.