Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 280 - Department of Revenue
Chapter 20 - Division of Taxation
Subchapter 35 - Estate Tax
Part 1 - Computation of Estate Tax (280-RICR-20-35-1)
Section 280-RICR-20-35-1.5 - General

1. Any scheduled increase in the unified credit provided in 26 U.S.C. § 2010 in effect on January 1, 2001, or thereafter, shall not apply. The tax shall only be imposed if the net taxable estate shall exceed six hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($675,000). Exempting net taxable estates of six hundred seventy-five thousand or less requires a unified credit of two hundred twenty thousand five hundred fifty dollars ($220,550). See Form RI-100A, Rhode Island Estate Tax Return - Date of death January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2014 - Tax Computation Schedule.

2. For decedents whose death occurs on or after January 1, 2010, and prior to January 1, 2015 the tax is a sum equal to the maximum credit for state death taxes allowed by 26 U.S.C. § 2011 as it was in effect as of January 1, 2001. Any scheduled increase in the unified credit provided in 26 U.S.C. § 2010 in effect on January 1, 2003, or thereafter, shall not apply. The tax shall only be imposed if the net taxable estate shall exceed eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($850,000). Exempting net taxable estates of eight hundred fifty thousand or less requires a unified credit of two hundred eighty-seven thousand three hundred dollars ($287,300). See Form RI-100A, Rhode Island Estate Tax Return - Date of death January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2014 table "B".

3. For decedents whose death occurs on or after January 1, 2015, the tax is a sum equal to the maximum credit for state death taxes allowed by 26 U.S.C. § 2011, in effect as of January 1, 2001. Any scheduled increase in the unified credit provided in 26 U.S.C. § 2010 in effect on January 1, 2003, or thereafter, shall not apply. A Rhode Island credit shall be allowed against any tax so determined in the amount of sixty-four thousand four hundred dollars ($64,400).

4. Beginning on January 1, 2011 and each January 1 thereafter, the threshold of eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($850,000) in § 1.5(B)(2) of this Part shall be adjusted by the percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers as of September 30 of the prior calendar year compounded annually and rounded up to the nearest five dollars ($5.00) increment. Exempting net taxable estates from the annually revised amount will require an annual adjustment to the unified credit (line 3 of the computation schedule). The revised taxable threshold and unified credit amounts will be published annually on the tax division website www.tax.ri.gov along with a revised computation schedule.