[xsmommy]

i am a former Pittsburgher and with the passing of my father in December, am personally confronting the PA inheritance tax situation, so i was particularly interested in your piece.

[Dukie]

My sympathies to you on your loss, xsmommy. My own interest in the topic was focused by the same occurrence, coincidently in December too.

[mountaineer]

The death tax and Allegheny County's ridiculously high property taxes are but two reasons I want my mother to leave Pa. If she lived in my county, just over the Pa. line, she'd save (rough estimate) at least 70 percent in property taxes alone. Of course, we don't have any doctors - thanks to the medical malpractice insurance "crisis" - in W.Va., so there is a bit of a trade-off.