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Recent developments in estate planning: Part 2

This second installment of an annual update on trust, estate, and gift taxation covers gift and generation-skipping transfer taxation plus inflation adjustments and legislative proposals in the president’s proposed budget for fiscal 2024.

No basis step-up for grantor trust assets if not in grantor’s estate

In a revenue ruling issued Wednesday, the IRS confirms that the step-up in basis under Sec. 1014(a) does not apply to the assets held by an irrevocable grantor trust when the grantor dies if the grantor’s gross estate does not include the assets of the irrevocable trust.

2022 Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award

G. Edgar “Eddie” Adkins Jr., CPA, received the 2022 Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award, the highest honor bestowed by the accounting profession in the area of taxation.

Recent developments in estate planning: Part 3

In this third installment of an annual update on trust, estate, and gift taxation, the topics include generation-skipping transfer tax, trusts, private foundations, selected inflation-adjusted amounts, and the president’s and Treasury’s proposed law changes affecting trusts, estates, and gifts.

Recent developments in estate planning: Part 2

In this second installment of an annual update on trust, estate, and gift taxation, the topics include split-dollar life insurance arrangements, indirect gifts, formula clauses in transfers of limited partnership interests, valuation discounts, and grantor retained annuity trusts.

Recent developments in estate planning: Part 1

In this first installment of an annual update on trust, estate, and gift taxation, the topics include estate tax closing letters, the basic exclusion amount, estate debts and expenses, and extending the time to elect portability.