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Payment of estate taxes can significantly diminish the size of a person’s estate, and therefore greatly reduce the value of each beneficiary’s gifts. A well-thought out estate plan serves to minimize estate taxes by reducing the value of the assets that pass through probate (by will or under intestacy) in order to avoid the assessment of taxes.
