Estate 2 Flashcards
Not a Completed Gift
- revocable trust
- disclaimer
- disclaimer trust
-no gift tax
Gift of future interest
- no 15k exclusion
- 2503b
- remainder interest
- a trust with income accumulating
Gift of present interest
- 15k exclusion
- 2503c
- direct gift
- crummier trust
- 529 plans
- UGMA/UTMA
What can operate as a simple trust
- QTIP
- 2503b
- irrevocable
- spray
How to remember form 709
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-GROSS Minus expenses, admin fees, debts, taxes, casualty losses -AGE Minus marital charitable -TAXABLE ESTATE PLUS adjusted taxable gifts -TAX BASE Minus exemption amount times tax rate -TENTATIVE TAX Minus gift taxes paid
Life insurance gift tax ability
During lifetime, if insured gifts the policy, taxable gift is the interpolated terminal reserve plus the unearned premium
ILIT TAXABILITY
As long as it’s been 3 years since transferring policy to an ILIT, it’s not included in your gross estate
- The funded ILIT (not crummy) is income taxable to grantor
- For the unfunded since there’s no “income” being produced and you’re just gifting the premium payment in every year there’s nothing to really pay income tax on
Simple trusts
2503b, QTIP, QDT, Dynasty
Complex trusts
2503b
Crummy trust
Irrevocable
Demand rights
Typical use is in an ILIT
5 or 5 estate tax
Kid dies with a 5% general power interest
- if they haven’t taken out 5%, included in their estate
- if they took out 5% and spent it, not included
Ascertainable standard taxability
Distributions for ascertainable standard have no gift or estate tax
Bypass Trust, nonmarital, B non marital, family
- can be simple or complex
- property transferred at death
- descendent has postmortem control
- can be set up to provide income to wife or other peeps (may have right to invade corpus)
- as long as only hems or 5/5 withdrawal rights, bypass will not be included in surviving spouses estate. At death of wife, assets pass tax free
Marital Trust A trust-power of appointment trust
Second spouse to die controls
Consists of property transferred at defendants death
Surviving Spouse has transfer control over property-can invade entire corpus
Qualified for Marital deduction
Subject to estate taxes after wife kicks it
QTIP/C trust—simple trust
First spouse to die controls “Current income trust” Qualified for marital deduction Included in gross estate of surviving spouse when she kicks it Serving spouse may have limited power of invasion over corpus and income of a QTIP Lifetime income interest for spouse Annual payments to spouse Mandatory payments to spouse Exclusively for spouse