Demystifying Discounts
Discounts for lack of marketability and lack of control or minority interest are essential elements of the valuation of stock or other interests in a closely-held business. They are factors which a prospective buyer will consider in determining how much to offer for such an… Read More
Disappearing Discounts
While the federal estate and gift tax used to be assessed at a maximum rate of the confiscatory fifty-five percent (55%) (and for a few years and for very large estates, an astounding sixty-five percent (65%)) it is now at the historically low figure of… Read More