Republicans have been trying to repeal the estate tax for 35 years. For 35 years, they did not want this any longer. They've called it the death tax, but for some reason, they didn't try to do it in this latest bill. They didn't put it into the big beautiful bill.Why. Joining us now, Boston College Law School professor Ray Maidoff, who specializes in the area areas of inheritance law, trusts, and estates. She's also the author of the upcoming book, The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristo ...

Over the past three decades. US corporations set up shop in Ireland. In 1996, about 3% of US businesses with global operations had Irish affiliates.By 2022, 25% of them opened Irish businesses. You really cannot talk about US multinationals in the last few decades without talking about Ireland. Big US corporations, that's technology companies like Apple, Microsoft or big pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer.Their tax strategies for, for many decades at least, were built around the role of Ireland. Something ...