South Carolina General Assembly
115th Session, 2003-2004

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Bill 3618


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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

TO MEMORIALIZE THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO PERMANENTLY REPEAL THE DEATH TAX.

Whereas, under tax relief legislation passed in 2001, the Death Tax was temporarily phased out, not permanently eliminated; and

Whereas, women and minorities are very often owners of small and medium-sized businesses, and the death tax prevents their children from reaping the rewards of a lifetime trying to make a better life; and

Whereas, farmers and other small businesses will face losing their farms and businesses if the federal government resumes the heavy taxation of citizens at death; and

Whereas, employees suffer when they lose their jobs when small and medium-sized businesses are liquidated to pay death taxes and because high capital costs depress the number of businesses that could offer them a job; and

Whereas, if the estate tax had been repealed in 1996, over the next nine years the United States economy would have averaged as much as $11 billion each year in extra output, and an average of 145,000 additional new jobs would have been created; and

Whereas, the persistent uncertainty created by the sunset provision prevents families and small businesses from taking advantage of the temporary repeal; and

Whereas, having repeatedly passed both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, elimination of the death tax has proved to hold wide bipartisan support. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, memorialize the Congress of the United States to permanently repeal the death tax.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of the South Carolina Congressional Delegation.

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