Estate Planning Flashcards
If a Giftor gift to beneficiary but then the beneficiary dies within first year
Original basis is original donor basis
QDOT
3
1) Trustee must be US citizen or US corporation
2) all income annually must be distributed to surviving spouse
3) appropriate when surviving is a non US citizen
FLP
3
Family Limited Partnership
- grantor retains General Partnership transferring limited partnership to family members
- a discount for minority interest may be used for value
- used for appreciating assets
How are dividends declared on death
706
4
After declaration date but before EX date =ignore
After EX date but before record date = dividend added to stock price on Date of Death
If after record date but before payout =. Declared separately on 706
If after payout =. You can ignore
RMD Due Date
If you turn 70.5 second half of year = use year end value for next year and report before April 1st using 70 calculation
If you turn 70.5 first half of year you can defer to next year 4-1 and use 71 calculation but must take two distributions that year.
What amount is considered a gift in a GRAT OR A GRUT
FMV - PV of retained interest by the Grantor
DNI
Distributable Net Income
Established amount taxable to beneficiaries
Capital gains are not included in DNI calculation
Calculating Gross estate to get to taxable estate
8
Funeral expenses
Administrative costs
Unpaid mortgages
Debts and unpaid taxes
Casualty losses
Charitable contributions(unlimited)
Transfer to surviving spouse
State death taxes.
Private Annuity
Transfer business and provides income to family
Deduction to donor
What is a Skip Person
3
- grandchild
- unrelated person breather than 37.5 years younger
- trust with grandchild as beneficiary
NOT=spouse or former spouse if your child is deceased and money goes to grandchild
Section 303
Stock redemption
1- redeem stock as a capital Gain not a dividend
- stock has to be greater than 35 percent of defendants gross estate
Section 6166
Deferred payment of estate tax
- closely held business or Farm
- greater than 35% percent of gross estate
- can defer taxes from year 6-16(defer 5 years for 10 years)
- interest penalties will be paid on deferral
2032A
Special Use Valuation
- farm or closely held business reduce valuation
- aggregate deduction can’t exceed 1,090,000
- value of property must be greater than 50 %percent of gross estate
- 5 of 8 years material participants
- land must be for qualified use for at least 10 years after dependents death
Recapitalization
2
- common stock traded for preferred stock and non voting stock
- Senior member keeps the voting power
Private Foundation
4
- tax exempt charitable organization
- created by a family or coir portion
-taxes= 30% deduction for cash contributions
20% LTCG for donated property
-keep control
CLT
3
Charitable Lead Trust
- income is transferred from the trust to the charity but leaving corpus to the family
- PV of the interest is a deduction to the grantor
- used for people with no income need
CRT
4
Charitable Remainder Trust
- irrevocable
- CRATS OR CRUTS
- last for life of grantor for up to 20 year
- payout must be 5-20 percent
Pooled Income Fund
5
- irrevocable trust to a public charity
- managed by charity
- income for goes i donor and maybe 1 more beneficiary for life
- can’t invest in munis
- payment to donor based on earnings
GRAT
8
Income to Grantor for life
Gift is the FMV-PV of the income
Corpus passes to beneficiary(not charity)
Fixed payments annually that can’t exceed 120% of previous year
Used if grantor is suppose to outlive term
Taken out of grantors estate if he lives last terms
Gift of future interest so no annual exclusion
Irrevocable
QPRTS
8
Qualified Personal Residence Trust
Grantor lives in the residence for term
Only 1 resident
Family only
Income to term holder
Can covert to GRAT
Can be repurchased by donor
Used for appreciating assets
How is a trust taxed?
Beneficiary is taxed in distribution
Distribution deductions is the lesser of the net investment income or amount distributed to beneficiary
Income distributed keeps the same characteristics(example tax exempted)
Blind trust
Created to avoid conflicts of interest
Used by Government officials
Certified by the board of Government officials