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In most cases, life insurance proceeds are INCOME tax free, but most of the time, there is estate tax on life insurance. Even worse, in some cases the life insurance was purchased to pay estate taxes. Thus, one is paying estate taxes on the money used to pay estate taxes. Such planning does not make sense. It amounts to a significant waste of life insurance premiums.
