Estate and gift tax revenue declining as a portion of total federal receipts

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Note: The estate tax was temporarily suspended in 2010.

Source: Source: Isabel V. Sawhill and Eleanor Krause, "American workers need a pay raise--the estate tax could help." Brookings, November 2 2017. Data from Office of Management and Budget, Tables 2.1 and 2.5, https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/ Get the data