Tax Roulette-The White House and Congress want to re-do the Internal Revenue Code. Here's how to play the odds on possible changes

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With talk of tax code changes bubbling in Washington, Gerald Mandell, 67, is in tax-planning limbo. Does he gamble that the estate tax will end? Under current law the estate tax shrinks slowly through 2009, dies in 2010, then is resurrected in 2011. George Bush says he wants to make the elimination of the estate tax permanent. He has majorities in both houses of Congress, but there are four congressional elections and two presidential ones between now and 2011. Anything can happen.