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Estate Tax Action Center | Call to Preserve the Estate Tax

 

How Many Wealthy People (Subject to the Estate Tax) in Each State Signed Up to Oppose Estate Tax Repeal?

And How Many People Actually Paid the Estate Tax in 2003 By State?

State

# Call Signers
Who Will Owe Estate Tax

# State Residents
to Pay Estate Tax in 2003

Alabama

2

410

Alaska

1

19

Arizona

17

328

Arkansas

14

179

California

302

5631

Colorado

24

374

Connecticut

27

668

Delaware

0

104

District of Columbia

29

106

Florida

45

2735

Georgia

14

828

Hawaii

4

97

Idaho

1

51

Illinois

54

1498

Indiana

8

596

Iowa

14

357

Kansas

7

218

Kentucky

4

352

Louisiana

18

178

Maine

42

107

Maryland

29

496

Massachusetts

143

831

Michigan

14

699

Minnesota

19

386

Mississippi

1

121

Missouri

6

69

Montana

4

88

Nebraska

2

177

Nevada

2

213

New Hampshire

8

94

New Jersey

44

1323

New Mexico

9

98

New York

204

2255

North Carolina

24

662

North Dakota

0

33

Ohio

21

896

Oklahoma

0

228

Oregon

84

491

Pennsylvania

71

1183

Rhode Island

3

165

South Carolina

3

301

South Dakota

1

50

Tennessee

8

328

Texas

35

1347

Utah

3

90

Vermont

13

87

Virginia

23

803

Washington

114

857

West Virginia

1

89

Wisconsin

17

544

Wyoming

0

82

Sources: "Call Signers" are people who signed United for a Fair Economy’s Call to Preserve the Estate Tax and self-reported that they expect to owe federal estate taxes.

The number of actual estate tax payers is provided by the Internal Revenue Service, in their table "Estate Tax Returns Filed in 2003 with Gross Estates of $1 Million or More." www.irs.gov/taxstats/index.html 2003 data is the most recent available from the IRS.


 

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