date:Sep 18, 2013
her and brother poured more than $9 billion into trusts since 2003 that fund charitable projects like Crystal Bridges and are also designed to protect gifts to heirs from taxation. Another Walton pioneered a tax-avoidance maneuver that is now widely used by U.S. billionaires.
I hate to say it, but the very rich pay very little in gift and estate tax, said Jerome Hesch, a lawyer at Berger Singerman LLP in Miami who reviewed some of the Walton familys trust filings for Bloomberg. At the Waltons n