IRS releases statistics on dramatic drop in number of estate tax returns filed since 2001


Due primarily to increases in the estate tax return filing threshold, the number of estate tax returns (IRS form 706)  filed decreased from more than 108,000 in 2001 to just over 15,000 in 2010. See the statistics at the IRS web page at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/10esesttaxsnap.pdf.