We’ve got less than two months before the current Federal Estate Tax and Generation Skipping Transfer tax rules expire. That means that as of today we do not know what the estate tax rates will be after 2010 and with Congress on (another) break it looks less and less likely that the current Estate tax laws will be extended beyond 2010. Unfortunately we do not know if the Estate tax laws are going to return to pre-2001 numbers or if an entirely new set of Estate tax laws will be implemented in including the possibility of retro-actively collecting estate taxes. This fact is what is causing the current state of confusion and uncertainty amongst many individuals, attorneys, and CPA’s.