Farm groups are urging the Senate to also address an estate tax repeal, and Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) has introduced a companion bill to the House version.The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill 17 April (240-172) to rescind the federal estate tax. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the repeal will cost the federal government $269 billion over the next 10 years. As we reported earlier in the year, the Obama administration proposed raising the estate tax rate to its 2009 levels as part of the president's budget submission to Congress. This would undo the provision passed in 2012 to make the estate tax rate permanent. The 2009 levels included a $3.5 million exemption and a tax rate of 45 percent for transfers above th...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.