Justice O’Connor, concurring in the judgment. The unamended 26 U. S. C. § 2057 , which allowed taxpayers to reduce the taxable estate by buying securities and reselling them to employee stock ownership plans (E SOP’s), made it possible to avoid estate taxes by structuring transactions in a certain way. But the tax laws contain many such provisions. See, e. g., <spa…
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