Calculating efficiency over a period of time can identify opportunities to reorganize staffing, or add or remove employees based on the company's volume of business, and an individual employee's long-term productivity can factor into merit increases and bonuses.
While trusts avoid probate, they don't avoid taxes. A transfer from a revocable trust will be taxed the same way as a transfer made through a will. Someone who inherits money from a revocable trust receives it tax-free, but the estate might have to pay estate tax on everything that it contains before distributing it.
Most relatives who inherit are exempt from Maryland's inheritance tax. Maryland collects an inheritance tax when certain recipients inherit property from someone who lived in Maryland or owned property there. Close relatives and charities are exempt from the tax; other inheritors pay the tax at a 10% rate.