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Gifting and Unified Tax Credit has expanded in estate planning

By Michael Baron, Great Plains Diversified Services Inc., Bismarck, N.D.
Jan 12, 2012
Jan 12, 2012

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Dear Michael: We've had some recent mineral activity and we don't know whether anything will come of it. We've also helped our son get started in farming. Years back, some land came up for sale that he needed but he couldn't get the financing. We'd like to sell it to him for what we paid for it, but now the land has doubled and tripled in value.

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