Hoyer: No estate tax quick fix
With time running out for Congress to enact some sort of estate tax reform before the scheduled 2010 repeal, lawmakers are pondering a one-year quick fix measure that buys them more time to put together a permanent reform package.
But the House majority leader isn’t happy with that solution.
In a meeting yesterday, Rep. Steny Hoyer pushed fellow Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee to adopt a permanent fix this year, Bloomberg reports.
“He made a convincing argument for a permanent fix,” Connecticut Representative John Larson said after the meeting with Hoyer.
More from Bloomberg here, and more on the state of the estate tax here from Lawyers USA.
