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How the new estate tax rules could reduce charitable giving by billions

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
What people decide to bequeath to charity depends on many factors, including tax laws.Ocskay Bence/Shutterstock.com

Congress and the Trump administration scaled back the estate tax when they enacted the new tax law.

Although the government didn’t do away with this tax altogether, as many conservatives had long called for, trimming the tax...

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