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The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Is Now a $5 Trillion Market
Original: The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market
A Wall Street Journal report says the 'buy, borrow and die' wealth strategy — where the wealthy borrow against appreciated assets instead of selling them, avoiding capital gains taxes, then pass assets on with a stepped-up basis — has grown into a roughly $5 trillion lending market. Commenters are debating the fairness of the tax loophole and whether policymakers will move to close it.
Why now: The scale of tax avoidance through asset-based lending highlights ongoing debates over taxing the wealthy.
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