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Bloomberg - Jack Fitzgerald, buyer and architect of Kensington, Maryland-based Fitzgerald Auto Mall, has a eyes for the approaching of the acreage tax: advantageous it afore he dies so his brood won't face that burden.Fitzgerald has created a group, Americans Standing for Simplification of the Acreage Tax, or ASSET, and has assassin above U.S. Representative Phil English, a Pennsylvania Republican who was on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, as a lobbyist.English said the $858 billion tax-cut accord that extends the acreage tax for two years provides Fitzgerald and others with abounding time to accomplish their case.The law “created, we think, an befalling to revisit the acreage tax back that accurate accouterment lapses,” said English, a chief adviser with Ardent Fox LLP in Washington.Family-owned businesses Those active such family-owned businesses as auto dealerships, application companies and wineries advance that the acreage tax can advance their brood to advertise to ample corporations rather than to canyon on the business to the abutting generation.Terry K. Hadley, admiral of the Falls Church, Virginia- based National Association of Allowance and Financial Advisors, said activity allowance is generally acclimated to pay estate-related bills such as probate fees and acreage taxes.The detached Tax Policy Center in Washington estimates that the burden will affect 3,600 estates, or about 0.2 percent of the estimated cardinal of decedents, in 2011.For allotment filed in 2009, the Internal Acquirement Service said that 14,713 estates, advertisement assets accretion , were accountable to the tax, which was 45 percent at the time.Dick Patten, admiral of the American Family Business Institute, which opposes the acreage tax, said he could not abutment a tax access as a replacement. It estimated that a 1.77 percent , indexed for inflation, would accession .1 billion over a decade. In budgetary 2009, according to the IRS.Fitzgerald suggests a 2 percent tax on assets, with beneath acquirement bare to alter the lower amount and college absolution in accepted law. Added funds could be aloft by assessing capital-gains tax on sales of assets based on the antecedent acquirement price, rather than the cost-basis at the time of death.