Corporate Johnson Matthey provides a full range of international platinum group metals management services. These include: the operation of client metal accounts, pricing alternatives for buying or selling PGM and arranging delivery of metals to international locations.
In most circumstances, the beneficiaries may well approve a 5% fee to the executor. In many instances however, when contested, the courts will not allow the executor be paid the maximum 5% of the gross aggregate value of the estate.
2. Among the few estates nationwide that owed any estate tax in 2013, the effective tax rate -- that is, the share of the estate's value paid in taxes -- was 16.6 percent, on average, according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC). [5] That is far below the top statutory rate of 40 percent.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. (See Figure 1.) This is because of the tax's high exemption amount, which has jumped from $650,000 per person in 2001 to $5.43 million per person in 2015.