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Therefore, if the taxpayer's sister were to sell the house for $100,000, she would not have to pay any income tax because the sales price ($100,000) minus her stepped-up basis ($100,000) would be a capital-gain income of zero. See the explanation under "Rationale for stepped-up basis" (below) for an explanation of why the Tax Code would do this.
In 2016, the exemption was $5.45 million per person. Starting in 2011, the GST exemption amount for generation-skipping trusts and for outright gifts to skip-persons, is $5 million per person (or $10 million for a married couple). The exemption amount is increased annually by an inflation adjustment as is the estate/gift tax exemption.
The Child Tax Credit under TCJA law provides up to $2,000 deduction per child, with up to $1,400 of that credit being refundable. The tax credit is available to families with children under 17 ...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 lowered individual income tax rates, boosted standard deductions and eliminated personal exemptions, among other changes. However, the Trump tax cuts are due to...
Significantly, it also cut the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 37% and applied to it those earning over $500,000 a year, rather than around $427,000 (and $600,000 for couples, up from around $480,000).
The term "death tax" more directly refers back to the original use of "death duties" to address the fact that death itself triggers the tax or the transfer of assets on which the tax is assessed. While the use of terms like "death duty" had been known earlier, specifically calling estate tax the "death tax" was a move that entered mainstream ...
Assets left to any other heir, including the decedent's children, may be taxed if that portion of the estate has a value in excess of the lifetime gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax exemption amount. As of 2023, the federal exemption amount was $12,920,000. For a married couple, the combined exemption is $25,840,000. [10]
At the end of 2025, significant tax cuts are expiring that were passed under the Trump administration through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), often called the Trump tax cuts. Unless a new law is...