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2. Do I Pay Taxes Automatically If I Inherit Property? - AOL

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   Sale price ($500,000) - Stepped-up original cost basis ($500,000) = $0.00 taxable capital gains On the other hand say that you hold the house for a year, during which time the price of this house ...

3. Stepped-up basis - Wikipedia

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   A stepped-up basis can be higher than the before-death cost basis, which is the benefactor's purchase price for the asset, adjusted for improvements or losses. Because taxable capital-gain income is the selling price minus the basis, a high stepped-up basis can greatly reduce the beneficiary's taxable capital-gain income if the beneficiary ...

4. What Is the Cost Basis of Inherited Stock? - AOL

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   Whether you inherited the stocks through a brokerage, will or trust, calculating the cost-basis stays the same. However, the stepped-up rule only applies to inherited stocks (and other financial ...

5. Ask an Advisor: $5 Million Windfall - How Should My Kids ...

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   This is called a stepped-up basis. This potentially creates a tax-saving opportunity for your children. If the stock’s value has fallen by 30% since their father passed, then there isn’t ...

6. Capital gains tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Under the stepped-up basis rule, [8] for an individual who inherits a capital asset, the cost basis is "stepped up" to its fair market value of the property at the time of the inheritance. When eventually sold, the capital gain or loss is only the difference in value from this stepped-up basis.

7. Cost basis - Wikipedia

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   e. Basis (or cost basis), as used in United States tax law, is the original cost of property, adjusted for factors such as depreciation. When a property is sold, the taxpayer pays/ (saves) taxes on a capital gain / (loss) that equals the amount realized on the sale minus the sold property's basis. Cost basis is needed because tax is due based ...

8. All About the Stepped-Up Basis Loophole

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   Stepped-up basis is a tax provision that allows heirs to reduce their capital gains taxes. When someone inherits property and investments, the IRS resets the market value of these assets to their ...

9. The Gifting Strategy That Could Help You Avoid Estate Taxes - AOL

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   The strategy revolves around the step-up in basis that’s given to assets inherited by heirs. The idea is to reverse the flow of an estate's valuable property from going "downstream" – to ...