The money that he bought that stock with was already
Posted on: April 26, 2017 at 21:32:20 CT
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Taxed, but yet you want to treat it as income and tax it again. Death being the trigger and you see nothing wrong with this despite the fact it has been taxed previously, and will be taxed again when the people inheriting it sell the stock.
I believe they have a different cost basis but the government will get a cut. What you don't like is the fact a person took already taxed money, bought something, it appreciated, he died without selling it, so the government fo screwed out of capital gains on the original basis
Did I capture your position correctly