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What year should federal estate taxes be phased out by?

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The U.S. tax law of 1981 greatly reduced estate and gift taxes by raising exemptions (from $175,000 to $600,000) and lowering rates, and a 2001 law calls phase out the federal estate tax by 2012 ...

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