Rosen, who served in the Bush administration, is appalled at the notion of raising estate taxes.
Then raise estate and capital gains to Reagan levels.
Finally, you might want to wait and see if Congress raises the estate-tax exemption, now $1.35 million per couple, and scheduled to rise to $2 million in 2006.
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A decade ago, he said, the real estate industry waged a relentless $850,000 campaign against Mayor David N. Dinkins's proposal to raise real estate taxes by $1 billion to plug a budget gap.
So far 17 states and the District of Columbia have "decoupled" from the federal estate tax, meaning they've refused to reduce their rates and/or are not raising their estate tax exemptions along with the federal exemption, which went to $1 million this year and goes to $3.5 million by 2009.
It has raised real estate prices significantly without providing an influx of tourism-related jobs.
Making a district a landmark tends to raise real estate values.
The city's 18.5percentt property tax increase late last year raised real estate costs, too.
But it would raise the estate taxes they would have to pay to pass the company to their children someday.
