HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2070        FILED ON: 1/19/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2850

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act updating the estate tax.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

1/18/2023

Nicholas A. Boldyga

3rd Hampden

1/26/2023

Peter J. Durant

6th Worcester

1/26/2023

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth

1/26/2023

F. Jay Barrows

1st Bristol

1/26/2023

Lenny Mirra

2nd Essex

1/26/2023

Joseph D. McKenna

18th Worcester

1/27/2023

Kimberly N. Ferguson

1st Worcester

1/31/2023

Steven George Xiarhos

5th Barnstable

2/23/2023

Hannah Kane

11th Worcester

3/1/2023


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2070        FILED ON: 1/19/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2850

By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2850) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and others relative to the estate tax.  Revenue.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)

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An Act updating the estate tax.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 2A of chapter 65C, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out subsection (a) and inserting in place the following subsection:-

(a) A tax is hereby imposed upon the transfer of the estate of each person dying on or after January 1, 1997 who, at the time of death, was a resident of the commonwealth. The amount of the tax shall be equal to the credit for state death taxes that would have been allowable to a decedent’s estate as computed under section 2011 of the Code, as in effect on December 31, 2000, hereinafter referred to as the “credit”. In the event that the federal gross estate of a person includes real or tangible personal property located outside of Massachusetts at the time of death, the tax shall be reduced by an amount equal to the proportion of such allowable credit as the value of said real or tangible personal property located outside of Massachusetts bears to the value of the entire federal gross estate wherever situated, as determined under section 2011 of the Code, as in effect on December 31, 2000.

SECTION 2. Said section 2A of said chapter 65C, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by adding the following subsection:-

(f) Effective for the estates of decedents dying on or after July 1, 2023, for purposes of computing the tax imposed by subsections (a) and (b), the credit shall be determined based on the value of the federal taxable estate after such estate is reduced by $2,000,000. Estates of decedents dying on or after July 1, 2023 are not required to pay any tax under subsection (a) or (b) if the value of the federal taxable estate is $2,000,000 or less. For purposes of this subsection, the federal taxable estate is the federal gross estate less any qualified conservation exclusion elected under section 2031(c) of the Code, as in effect on December 31, 2000, and further reduced by the deductions allowable by the Code, as in effect on December 31, 2000. 

SECTION 3.  Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect for the estates of decedents dying on or after July 1, 2023.