First, estate taxes are due only on the portion of an estate's value that exceeds the exemption level; at the 2015 exemption level of $5.43 million, a $6 million estate would owe estate taxes on $570,000 at most.. Today, 99.8 percent of estates owe no estate tax at all, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. [3] Only the estates of the wealthiest 0.2 percent of Americans -- roughly 2 out of every 1,000 people who die -- owe any estate tax.
However, Studebaker's financial problems were worse than the Packard executives thought. The Packard marque was phased out, and the company returned to the Studebaker Corporation name in 1962. The South Bend plant ceased production on December 20, 1963, and the last Studebaker automobile rolled off the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, assembly line on March 16, 1966.
Read more Read less. An American automotive company noted for producing the worldâs first plug-in electric vehicle, Fisker Automotive Inc. was founded by BMWâs Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler. Currently based in Anaheim, California the company has stayed true to the premium greenâ car segment it formed in 2007. The companyâs sole model, the Fisker Karma, has had modest sales leading the company to explore possibilities of expanding the lineup to include convertible and shooting-brake vehicles. Fisker has received multiple awards and in 2011 the Karma was recognized as Luxury Car of The Yearâ by Top Gear Magazine.