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by ihsw 4992 days ago
As other's have noted it can be bypassed through providing assets to children before death.
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At anything like a 50% estate tax, a 20-millionaire can just hire a bunch of family members at $100,000 a year and lose less in income and payroll taxes.

It's not 100% trivial, but there is an entire industry devoted to helping people with this. That industry really shouldn't exist.