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.
Raymark Corporation and Asbestos. Raymark Industries were at one time a major parts manufacturer in the automotive industry. For 70 years, Raymark operated from their 33-acre site located in Bountiful, Utah, where they manufactured disk brakes, drum brakes, brake pads, brake linings and adhesives.