Hopefully the stepped-up basis will remain.  It seems there are proposals to do away with this.  That would potentially have a large impact on many taxpayers.  

I commented about this several months or so ago... I think a compromise may be to let step-up basis remain up to 5 million dollars... Just my opinion....

So to be safe, the current strategy is to tell clients to die now --------------------- just in case 🤔

If you remember George Steinbrenner died at the "perfect time" (God forgive me) and his children did not have to sell the baseball team to pay the tax....

You hope for what you want, I'll hope for what I want. 

I'll hope that reactionary politicians financed by billionaires will stop campaigning for repeal of the estate tax "because that money has already been taxed once."  

The Golden Rule:  "He who has the gold rules"... It is this way in every single country and has been since mankind started, and always will be.....

But, there's this book that says the meek shall inherit the earth -- I bet they pay tax on it, then!