date:Sep 18, 2013
e sign that the estate tax has significantly eroded the familys fortune. Since Helen Walton died, Walton Enterprises has shed just 4 percent of its Wal-Mart stock, some of which remains in the Jackie O. trusts. Because of share buybacks, its control of the company has actually increased, from 40 percent to 49 percent.
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While the Waltons savvy use of the tax law may have left less for the government, residents of Bentonville where Sam Walton was known as Mr. Sam and his daught