Estate Tax
In a taxpayer-friendly development, the IRS issued guidance permitting certain estates to make a late portability election if they did not make a timely election.
This article discusses the rules governing the
effects of lapses and restrictions on voting or liquidation rights of owners on the valuation of
family-held entities.
The IRS provided the procedures same-sex married couples should use to recalculate the transfer-tax
treatment for property transferred to spouses.
The IRS spelled out the procedures same-sex married couples should use to recalculate the transfer-tax treatment for property transferred to spouses before the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Account transcripts that contain a specific transaction code and wording can serve as the equivalent of an estate tax closing letter.
The IRS will treat a QTIP election as valid in certain situations, including where an executor
of an estate makes a portability election to transfer the decedent’s unused applicable exclusion amount.
This article discuses how transfer-tax rules for noncitizen spouses differ from the transfer-tax rules that apply to spouses who are U.S. citizens or residents.
Careful and thoughtful advanced planning can result in substantial tax savings.
Executors and practitioners will have to deal with questions and inconsistencies until the IRS addresses them.
This item discusses relief available to the executor of an estate that fails to elect portability by failing to timely file an estate tax return.
The IRS issued long-awaited proposed regulations designed to prevent taxpayers from lowering the estate and gift tax value of transferred assets.
The IRS removed a prohibition on making a qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election when the election would have been null and void because the estate had a zero estate tax liability.
This is the first in a two-part series examining developments in estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax and trust income tax. Part 1 discusses legislative and gift and estate tax developments.
The regulations provide rules regarding the consistent basis reporting requirement and the required statement that must be furnished to the IRS and beneficiaries.
The Tax Court held that the IRS had properly taken into account events that occurred after the decedent’s death in determining the value of property for purposes of an estate’s charitable deduction.
Practitioners who assist clients with preparing estate tax returns should make sure that they know the very real danger they face if distributions are made from the estate before all the federal estate taxes are paid.
The IRS announced one last postponement in the due date for filing under rules requiring reporting of the value of an estate’s assets to the IRS and beneficiaries.
The regulations reiterate the delayed reporting deadline of March 31, 2016.
The IRS further postponed the due date for the new reporting requirement, under which estates must report the value of estate assets to the IRS and to beneficiaries.
Certain high-net-worth clients might achieve better results by using a preferred family
limited partnership rather than
an intentionally defective grantor trust or a grantor retained annuity trust.
