See, Ohio, It Can Be Done
Virginia repeals its death tax (link requires subscription):
Soon it will be safe to be caught dead in Virginia. Last week Democratic Governor Tim Kaine and the Republican-controlled legislature struck a deal to abolish the state’s estate tax, effective July 1 next year.
Only a few years ago nearly every state taxed estates at death, in part because a federal tax credit allowed states to keep part of the revenue that would otherwise go to Uncle Sam. Last year the federal tax credit was abolished and in two dozen states the death tax died along with it. But not at first in Virginia, which had decided way back in 1978 that it would go on collecting its death tax even without the benefit of a federal tax credit. Not any more.
