Teach Flashcards
5 and 5 power
- Right to withdraw min(5%, $5,000)
- Noncumulative
- Unwithdrawn amount included in GE at 5% * trust value
Future interest gifts
Require filing gift tax returns
Ltd or Special POA
Excluded from holder’s GE
Reverse QTIP
- Treats the QTIP property as if the QTIP election was not made for GSTT purposes
- Assets in a QTIP trust will be included in the surviving spouse’s gross estate at death, regardless of whether a reverse QTIP election was made
Section 303 stock redemption
Permits the estate of a decedent shareholder to redeem the decedent’s shares with favorable income tax treatment.
- Transaction will be treated as a disposition of an asset (capital gain) rather than receipt of a dividend (ordinary income). This is especially advantageous because the shares received a stepped-up basis at death, and thus, the capital gain or loss is only measured from the DOD instead of the predeath basis.
- Conditions
- Stock included in GE
- Stock value > 35% AGE.
- Redemption proceeds eligible for capital gain treatment cannot exceed federal and state death taxes plus deductible funeral and administrative expenses
DNI
Excludes capital gains and principal
Retained Life Interest
Whether in writing or just an understanding
Included in GE
Government Pension Offset
SSWB or Survivor Benefit reduced by 2/3 Govt Pension
Explain how to process SS insurance credits/eligibility
What are permitted 401(k) match vesting schedules
2 - 6 year, or
3-year cliff
Distributions from a Roth IRA are ordered as:
- From regular contributions (no tax, no penalty)
- From conversions, FIFO (no tax, subject to penalty if attributed to conversion within 5 years)
- Earnings (subject to income tax and the 10% early withdrawal penalty)
Determine the taxable portion of an IRA distribution
After-tax contributions / Balance *
Distribution
Explain what happens when a plan is top-heavy
- Must use either 3-year cliff or 2-6 year vesting
- Must contribute 3% for all non-key EEs
Max contribution to SEP IRA
$19,200
- $13,500 EE
- $5,700 ER
Limit to convert to a QLAC in a qualified plan
min(25%, $135,000)
What is the consequence of not electing NUA?
Entire distribution taxed as ordinary income at time of distribution
How much is the max OOP limit for an HDHP?
$6,900 single
PAP Part D
Damage to your auto
Describe how a cashless NQSO exercise works
- Calculate cost of exercise
- Calculate cost of ordinary income tax on bargain element
- (1 + 2) / FMV = # shares to be sold
- # Exercised - (3) = # shares received
If nonqual. annuity distributed, which tax rules apply?
LIFO
Explain damages available under contributory negligence
None
What are the income tax consequences of a loan from a MEC?
- LIFO. Ordinary income tax on gain (cash surrender - premiums)
- If younger than 59-1/2, 10% early withdrawal on gain
Headcounts for COBRA and PBGC
20 and 25
Medicare A premium
Most people don’t pay because they or a spouse have 40 credits
Explain HO-3 Coverage B
Other structures
10% of Coverage A
Built-in Gains tax
- Applies only to S corps that formerly were C
- Paid by entity, not by shareholdes
Passive activity losses
- May offset only passive gains
- Phased-out deduction ($25,000/$12,500 S) for rental real estate
1231 Assets
Depreciable real or personal property used in a business
- Capital assets are personal property (vehicle or residence), and are disposed either as a Capital Gain or nondeductible
- Long-term assets are capitalized (depreciated, amortized, etc) and expensed over its useful life
- Timber, coal, and iron ore
- Livestock
- Unharvested crops
- Goodwill and intangibles
1231 Gains and Losses
- Losses may be carried forward 5 years
- Gains are Capital
- Gains offset by loss carryforwards are Ordinary
Maximum # investors in Private Placement
Tony Esposito
How much of a qualified plan’s life insurance payout is subject to income tax?
The cash surrender value, less any costs included in income by the decedent during the decedent’s lifetime, is subject to income tax.
Exception to the 21 & 1 Rule
2 years, 100% vested
Incidental benefit rule
- <=50% ER contrib to DC for whole life
- <=25% ER contrib to DC for term or universal
UBTI exclusions
- Leverage for ESOP
- Royalties
- Incidental rents
- Dividends and interest income
- Gains from the disposition of property
Prohibited actions
- Full-time EE paid extra for svcs to plan
- >10% DB plan assets in ER stock
- >10% DB plan assets in real property
50 / 40 Rule
DB plans must cover min(40% elig,. 50 EEs)
Determine the Top Heavy test
- Who is a Key EE?
- Which employers will be treated as single employers?
Explain Top-Heavy
>60% balances or accrued benefits to KEEs
Maximum Excess Percentage
Min(2x base, Base + 5.7%)