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Business Owners for a Responsible Estate Tax

Sign-on Statement

We, as owners of America’s small and mid-sized businesses, believe the repeal of the federal estate tax would be bad for our businesses, our communities, and our nation.

America’s investment in publicly funded infrastructure provides the foundation for our success. For example, our public schools provide us with an educated pool of employees. Emergency services protect our property and our customers. Courts defend our contracts and settle disputes.

As the ones who work hard to make our businesses successful, we object to being used as “poster children” for a tax break that would not help most of us, but would instead give nearly $1 trillion to America’s richest families over the next two decades. By moderating ever-larger concentrations of wealth and economic clout, the estate tax helps make small businesses more competitive, which is essential to our nation’s economic growth and security.

We support reform of the estate tax to reduce its effect on small and medium sized businesses. This includes raising the exemption level, and simplifying and extending the special protections that already apply to estates with significant small business and family farm assets. Most of us will not have to pay the estate tax if the exemptions are set at a reasonable level. Those of us who have estates above that level believe paying the estate tax is a fair way to ensure that future generations will, like us, have the opportunity to succeed in a competitive and healthy America.

PROTECT SMALL BUSINESSES

LET AMERICANS PLAN WITH CERTAINTY

REWARD THE AMERICAN ETHIC OF HARD WORK

MAKE THE ESTATE TAX FAIR FOR ALL AMERICANS

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* First Name
* Last Name
* Title
* Business Name
Business Description
Number of Employees
Business Address
Business Address (cont)
City
* State
ZIP code
Phone
* Email Address
I support the estate tax because:
Do you expect to owe any estate tax? (Only those estates larger than $1.5 million, or $3 million for a married couple, are taxable.)
	Yes
	No
	Not sure
Please indicate which actions you will take:
	Contact or meet with elected officials
	Write opinion pieces or letters to the editor for my local newspaper.
	Talk with journalists.
	Recruit other business signers of this statement.
	Sign the Call to Preserve the Estate Tax.

Are you a member of one or more of the following organizations? These organizations have opposed the estate tax, and we would like to work with signers of this Statement to communicate support for the estate tax to these organizations. (Check all that apply.)
	NFIB - National Federation of Independent Business
	Chamber of Commerce
	Rotary Club
	Small Business Service Bureau

	I grant permission for the following information to appear on the public signers list: First Name, Last Name, Title, Business Name, City, and State.

Download a PDF version of this statement for circulating to others.

For more information, call Lee Farris, Senior Tax Policy Organizer, 617-423-2148 ext. 133.

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