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You can safely gift stock under the annual gift exclusion, which allows individuals to give up to $17,000 annually (for 2023) or $18,000 (for 2024) to any number of recipients without incurring a ...
Upstream gifting is a tax and estate planning strategy that calls on giving highly-appreciated assets to someone in an older generation, who in turns leaves the assets to the original owner's ...
Estate planning usually involves determining how to pass assets on to younger generations. But instead of leaving a piece of real estate, bank account or burgeoning stock portfolio to your ...
The U.S. generation-skipping transfer tax (a.k.a. "GST tax") imposes a tax on both outright gifts and transfers in trust to or for the benefit of unrelated persons who are more than 37.5 years younger than the donor or to related persons more than one generation younger than the donor, such as grandchildren. [1]
When a taxable gift in the form of cash, stocks, real estate, gift cards, [2] or other tangible or intangible property is made, the tax is usually imposed on the donor (the giver) unless there is a retention of an interest which delays completion of the gift. A transfer is "completely gratuitous" when the donor receives nothing of value in ...
IRS publication 950 [permanent dead link ], Introduction to Estate and Gift Taxes, revised October 2011. "Estate Tax Pyramid Scheme", a June 2006 article by former US Secretary of Labor Robert Bernard Reich arguing for the estate tax. "Death and taxes 2010" A visual guide to where your federal tax dollars (Full resolution poster)
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The donee must accept the gift in order for the property transfer to take place. [1] However, because people generally accept gifts, acceptance will be presumed, so long as the donee does not expressly reject the gift. [2] A rejection of the gift destroys the gift, so that a donee cannot revive a once-rejected gift by later accepting it.