Dec. 17, 2024

Does Santa Have to Pay Gift Taxes? (Episode 311)

Ever wondered if Santa's sleigh full of gifts comes with a side of IRS paperwork? In this festive and thought-provoking episode, we explore whether the jolly old elf is subject to gift taxes.

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Ever wondered if Santa's sleigh full of gifts comes with a side of IRS paperwork? In this festive and thought-provoking episode, we explore whether the jolly old elf is subject to gift taxes.

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Well, good afternoon, Michiganers. It is Tuesday, December seventeenth, twenty

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twenty four. That means one week to finish your Christmas shopping.

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And of course, this is Tuesday with Tom, Michigan's only

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weekly Internet show where we answer your questions about estate

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planning and a state settlement in Michigan, and we don't

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send you a bill. I'm your host, Tom, a state

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planning attorney, lifelong Michigan resident, an ambassador for all things

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good in this great state of Michigan. Welcome, Welcome to

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today's program. Will a brief recap of the last episode.

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Have you sent your crummy letters? If you have an islet?

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And if you have one, you will likely know what

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that means, But for those who don't know what it means,

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that's an irrevocable life insurance trust. I discuss the importance

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of the annual crummy letter that needs to be sent

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in order to avoid text issues with the irs. If

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you have an islet, double check to make sure that

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your crummy letters have been sent, and if you have

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any questions about that, I invite you to listen to

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last week's episode. Well today, one week to go before

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Christmas today's topic, does Santa have to pay gift taxes?

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Please remember though that what I'm about to discuss during

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the program is, as always for educational purposes. It is

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not intended to be legal advice. You need to work

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with your attorney and your tax advisor to determine what

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is appropriate for you and your estate plan. So does

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Santa have to pay gift tax as well? Number one?

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Obviously Christmas, here we're looking at making gifts, So we're

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talking about oftentimes people make gifts just for the sake

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of making gifts to their friends, their families, their loved ones.

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Might be birthdays, might be holidays, might be graduations, or

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it might just be because they want to give something

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to somebody. And another reason that oftentimes clients are going

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to be making gifts is they're using it as a strategy,

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if you will, to reduce the size of their estate.

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Perhaps they have a federal estate tax problem where their

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estate is larger than the current federal estate tax exemption,

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which in twenty twenty four is thirteen point six million.

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Next year that is going up to thirteen point nine million.

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But unless something changes in Washington, d C. At the

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end of twenty twenty five that's going to be dropping

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down to five million. I've had previous episodes of the

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program where I've talked about the federal estate tax exemptions,

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and if that's a concern for you, I invite you

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to listen to those. But oftentimes it's going to be

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a gifting strategy that people might start using to shrink

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the size of their estate. They might start making annual

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gifts to their children. And currently the annual gift tax exemption,

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that's the amount that the IRS says that you can

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give anybody as many people as you want to. You

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can give them up to eighteen thousand dollars a year,

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and you don't have to worry about gift taxes on

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that eighteen thousand. Now that's a total eighteen thousand, not

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just each gift eighteen thousand. So if you were to

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give somebody eighteen thousand dollars in January one, had you

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done that, technically you weren't supposed to be making any

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birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, whatever happens to be during the

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rest of the year. Now that annual gift tax exemption

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is going to go up to nineteen thousand dollars next year,

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so many clients might start gifting away in interest in

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their estate, maybe providing eighteen thousand dollars gifts to their children.

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Oftentimes at the end of the year. There is no

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limit to the number of individuals you can make those

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gifts too, so you could give eighteen thousand dollars a

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year to as many people as you wanted to do.

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I actually had a client this goes back a number

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of years ago, when the federal estate tax was much

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lower the exemption amount, and he had a federal state

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tax issue, and part of my strategy for him was,

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why don't you just start making gifts to all of

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your congressmen and your congress women, because if you don't

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do that and shrink the size of your state, your

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money's going to end up going to the federal government.

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Anyhow Well, he didn't quite agree with that strategy, but

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it was something that could have been considered. Spouses married people,

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you can split the gift. That What that means is

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each spouse has an eighteen thousand dollars exemption. That's thirty

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six thousand dollars between the two spouses, or thirty eight

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thousand dollars in twenty twenty five, and it could be

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just a gift from the one spouse of the entire

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thirty six thousand, but it will be considered a split

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gift between both spouses. So you can start making some

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headway in oftentimes shrinking the size of your state, or

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if you just want to be making gifts to people. Now,

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the problem with a gift tax is it's a graduated

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scale and it tops out at forty percent, and nobody

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wants to pay a forty percent gift tax. So what's

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required when you make gifts that exceed that in this

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year eighteen thousand dollars a year, You now have to

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file a gift tax return. That's a return that's part

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of your annual tax return that's going to be filed

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in April. And on that gift tax return, you are

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going to have to report the amount of gifts that

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you made that exceeded that eighteen thousand dollars per person.

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So you'll have to report those gifts to the irs,

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and on that return you have to make a choice.

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You have to choose I will pay the gift tax now,

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meaning there'll be a calculation made as to how much

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the gift tax would be on the graduated scale, and

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you'll simply pay that tax. The alternative to that is

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to say, I'm going to defer paying the gift tax

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until I die, and then we will apply the amount

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of that gift against my overall annual federal estate tax

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exemption amount. Meaning what if you were to be making

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these gifts and they exceed the eighteen thousand, but at

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the time of your death, if it would be in

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this year, your total federal estate tax or your total

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estate including all those gifts that you made, doesn't it

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seed six thirteen point six million dollars. You're never going

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to pay a tax, but you still have to file

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the return. You still have to say to the IRS, Look,

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I'm making this gift. It exceeds the eighteen thousand, but

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I'm going to defer it and then will do the

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calculation at the time of my death based upon what

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my federal estate is worth at that time. Now, there's

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also some good news concerning if you've listened to previous

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episodes of this that when that currently scheduled federal estate

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tax exemption of thirteen point six this year thirteen point

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nine next year drops down to five million, the IRS

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still says all of these gifts that you made during

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your lifetime. Even though they've exceeded the five million, you

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can still apply them towards the amount that was available

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to you in the year that you made the gifts,

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so you could, in theory, by year's end, give away

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thirteen point six million dollars this year, file your gift

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tax return reporting the thirteen point six million, deferring that

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until you die, and if you didn't die until twenty sixteen,

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and if the federal estate taxemption goes down to only

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five million, you won't get punished for that. You will

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still be allowed to use that federal estate tax exemption

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amount that was available when you made the gift that

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you were relying upon. That. But bottom line, there can

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be tax considerations that Santa needs to be aware of

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in making gifts. Now we're not talking about charitable giving.

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That's a whole different conversation. We're just talking about gifts

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to individuals, friends, family members, just individuals.

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As that we're talking about.

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Now, there are some other options that Santa should also

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be aware of, and that is one spouses and this

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is us. Spouses can give an unlimited amount to their

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spouse without having to report it to the irs, without

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having to pay a gift tax on it without having

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to do the gift tax return. So I could give

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my spouse an unlimited amount of assets and that would

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not be a taxable gift. It would not be a

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reportable gift that I have to make. But again, that's

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going to be US spouses. If I have a non

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US spouse, that's going to be a different calculation, a

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significantly less calculation. I think currently it's a neighborhood of

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one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars or something like that,

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So it's a much less amount that can be given

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to non US spouses. Another exemption, and this might be

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something that Santa thinks about. If Santa is looking at

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paying college expenses for children, grandchildren, cost of higher education.

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If you were to pay directly to the college or

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university cost of higher education for say a child or grandchild,

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that is an unlimited amount. So if I have a

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grandchild that's going to go to let's say Michigan State University,

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and I choose to pay the tuition to Michigan State

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University directly to the university for my grandchild, that is

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an unlimit that is not a taxable gift. That I

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need to report to the IRS. But the key is

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it has to be paid directly to the university. So

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you can't give the money to your child and then

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have your child pay it, or is your grandchild that

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simply you're making payment directly.

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To the university.

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Another exception, if you will, is uncovered medical expenses. Let's

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say you have a friend a family member has some

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large outstanding medical expenses or is incurring significant medical expenses

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and you want to help them. You can pay an

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unlimited amount directly again to the provider of the service,

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and that is not going to be a taxable gift.

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So again some exceptions between us spouses, cost of higher

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education and to cover unpaid medical expenses. Now, speaking of college,

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you might be familiar with a five to twenty nine plan.

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I've talked about five twenty nine plans in previous episode.

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That's where you're going to be putting money into an

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account a five to twenty nine plan for use of

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let's say your child to go to college one day

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or a grandchild to go to college one day. Michigan

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has their mi I Saves, which is their five to

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twenty nine plan. You can front load a five to

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twenty nine plan with five years of gifts. What does

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that mean? You could look and say, hey, I'm going

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to go set up befour years end a five twenty

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nine plan for my child or my grandchild. I'm going

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to take that eighteen thousand dollars that I can give

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this year. I'm going to multiply that by five and

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that is the amount that I can actually put into

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that five to twenty nine plan this year. Again, married people,

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we can double that five times. Thirty six thousand is

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the amount that could be put into a five to

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twenty nine plan this year, all at once. Now what

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you need to understand, though, is you're front loading the

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five twenty nine plan really to get it started. It

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also means, oh that you cannot then be making gifts

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for the next four years into that five toy nine

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plan because you've already frontloaded with five years of gifts.

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But if you were looking at your end considering setting

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up an educational plan for a grandchild or child, and

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you really want to jump start it and set aside

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some significant dollars into that plan, you can front load

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it with five years worth of gifts, and now five

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toenty nine plans a little bit different because you can

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actually use some of it for high school and so,

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and some of it can actually be used to pay

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student loans. So if that's a thought that you have,

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you might want to explore it further and see what

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options you have with a five twenty nine plan. So

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those are some of the exceptions, if you will, or

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the primary exceptions to the individual gifts that we're normally

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talking about. Now, some considerations, some considerations are these, and

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it's something that people offer times don't think about, don't

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actually think about gifts. Let's say I'm sitting here and

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I'm saying I've got a home and I'm going to

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make my home jointly owned with my son Johnny. Well,

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a lot of people never stop to realize is in

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doing that, that is a gift. I've given Johnny something

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that Johnny didn't already own. I e an interest in

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my home. And if that interest in my home exceeds

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again eighteen thousand dollars this year for an individual, that

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is a taxable gift. That is a gift that needs

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to be reported on a gift tax return. That tax return,

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you're going to make that election about paying the tax

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now or deferring it until your death. Clients do this

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all the time as part of an estate planning strategy.

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They think that's what they should do. They put their

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child on their house with them, or maybe they just

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gift the home outright to the child, different different situations,

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not stopping to realize what did they do? They just

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made a taxable gift that exceeds eighteen thousand dollars. Now,

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let's say that's something that you want to do and

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it's going to exceed eighteen thousand dollars. Another option for you,

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if you don't want to have to file the gift

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tax return, is to consider annual gifts of a eighteen

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thousand dollars interest in the property. So you take how

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much is the property worth. Let's say it's one hundred

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thousand dollars. I'm going to give you eighteen thousand dollars

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worth of that one hundred thousand dollars this year, and

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then next year, I'm going to do the same thing.

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Next year, I'm gonna do the same thing, and over

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time you can end up giving the entire property while

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using the annual exemption amount to be applied towards what

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you're doing. So you could give a partial interest over

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several years. I had a client a number of years ago.

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What they wanted to do. They wanted to buy a

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daughter a new home. She was going to get a

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mortgage on it. So what they did is they went

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and got the mortgage on the home, and then annually

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or she got the mortgage on the home, annually, they

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would make a gift towards paying off the mortgage. That

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gift was based upon the value of the home. It

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was just a tax planning strategy. So there's different different

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ways to look at perhaps helping your children out if

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they're looking at some sort of a home situation. Good

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news too, in Michigan, if I make that gift to

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my child, I have to ask myself, does that uncap

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my property taxes? Because in general, in Michigan, when there's

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a transfer of ownership of real estate, whether it's an

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entire ent entire transfer or partial, that is potentially a

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taxable gift. Well, the good news is Michigan has expanded

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the exemption amount. That is the list of people that

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you can now transfer your Michigan real estate too. That

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will not be an uncapping of your property taxes. So again,

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if you're looking at real estate and you're considering making

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a gift of real estate to an individual, make sure

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you check out and see are they in this new

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group of people that you can make a gift to

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without uncapping property taxes, because if they're not, what you

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need to understand is when you make that gift of

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real estate, you're going to be uncapping the property taxes,

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which is going to be a greater expense for the

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person that you just gave the property too. So they've

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expanded it something for you to consider if you're going

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to be transferring real estate, and your tax advisor should

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be to explain all of that to you. Let's say

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you have a minor grandchild man or child, Okay, and

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you're looking at well, I want to make a gift.

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Let's say I want to make an eighteen thousand dollars

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gift to my one year old grandchild. I obviously don't

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want to hand eighteen thousand dollars over to buy one

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year old grandchild. One of the things that you could

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consider doing, and I've talked about this in previous episodes

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of the program, So if it's something that's of interest

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to you, I invite you to listen to a previous episode,

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and that would be an UTMA A count Uniform Transfer

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to Minor account. It's basically an account. It can be

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set up at a bank, can be set up at

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a financial institution, a financial services like a Merrill Lynch whatever,

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wherever you're doing your year investing, and you set up

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the UTMA count for the minor, and then rather than

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handing the eighteen thousand dollars over to the minor, you

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put the eighteen thousand dollars into this UTMA account. Again

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planning strategy. So if you're looking at doing something like that,

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check out an UTMA account. UTMA accounts can hold on

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to the money till the person turns eighteen, or you

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can actually extend that when the account is set up

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to be twenty one, So you can actually set up

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an UTMAH account put money into it that the grandchild

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would receive when they turn eighteen or twenty one, depend

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upon how the.

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Account is set up.

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You might also be familiar with another strategy that you

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sometimes hear about medicaid. And sometimes people say, well, let

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me start giving stuff away in order to make myself

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poor so that I will qualify for medicaid. So it's

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not giving things away to reduce federal state taxes. It's

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shrinking the size of the estate so that I will

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have a small enough estate that I would qualify for Medicaid. Well,

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under the current medicaid law, what you need to remember

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is gifts made within five years of applying for Medicaid

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have to be reported as part of that Medicaid application

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because the government doesn't want you to be giving away

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your state shortly applying for Medicaid in order to qualify.

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So think about in general, you have to report those gifts,

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and essentially those gifts could end up disqualifying you for

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a period of time from receiving Medicaid, because again, the

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government doesn't want you giving your estate away in order

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to shrink it for purposes of Medicaid. Not exactly something

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SANTA is looking at and making gifts, but it might

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be some of Santa's overall Medicaid planning strategy. Now let's

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look at a different let's look at the underside. What

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about the person who receives the gift from you, whether

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it's this eighteen thousand dollars or whatever, the amount, whatever

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the asset happens to be. Well, the big problem, potential

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problem is if you're giving away an asset that has

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increased in value, then we have to look at two things.

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So let's say I buy that house for fifty thousand dollars,

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and let's just say I give that home to my child,

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and it's now worth twice as much, worth one hundred thousand.

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I know these numbers aren't actual, but just work the

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math with me. So I bought it for fifty, it's

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worth one hundred, and I give it to my child.

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What have I just done? Well, what I have just

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done in making that gift is I pass on to

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my child my basis in the asset. In this case,

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what did I pay for? Other example, I've got fifty

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thousand dollars worth of Google stock that I bought. It's

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now worth one hundred thousand dollars, and I give that

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Google stock to my child. I'm playing Santa. I give

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them that Google stock to my child. Again, I am

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passing on to my child my basis in the stock.

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What does that really mean? Essentially, what I'm doing is

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I'm passing on potential capital gains taxes, because now if

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my child takes and sells that stock for one hundred

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thousand dollars and their basis is only fifty because that's

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what I paid for. They my child is going to

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have to pay the capital gains tax on that fifty

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thousand dollars gain. So need to be mindful that when

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you are gifting away appreciated assets, that you're giving away

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the basis in the asset, which could end up passing

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on capital gains tax to the person you're making the gift. Now,

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why is that so important? Well, another reason other than

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it's a tax that you're passing on to the person,

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is that under current law, if that same person inherited

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that asset from you at the time of your death,

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they would get a stepped up basis in the asset.

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So let's use that example of my Google stock. I

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bought it for fifty thousand. Rather than making a gift

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of it right now to my child, I simply put

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in my estate plan that when I die, my child

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gets the Google stock I die. Let's say the google

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stock is worth one hundred thousand dollars. When I die,

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my child's basis now in that stock is going to

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be stepped up to one hundred thousand dollars, which means

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what there is no capital gains tax. So part of

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this strategy, when you really get into involving a lot

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of gifts that are going to be made, particularly for

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perhaps tax planning purposes on your own, you also have

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to look at from the standpoint of the person that

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you're making the gift too, and what are you potentially

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passing on to them, And maybe the gifts shouldn't be made.

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Maybe there's a different strategy that I might be used.

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In some cases, you might be weighing and measuring the

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difference between a federal estate tax and capital gains taxes

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versus no capital gains tax.

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Was stepped up basis.

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I had a client that I was working with a

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number of months ago who was thinking about giving a

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property to their child because they thought that would be

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a good thing to do. And by the time they

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looked at it and realized, hey, this property has grown

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immensely in valid. Tell you over the time that I've

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earned it, determination was made my child would be better

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off to inherit it than for me to give it

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to them because of the stepped up basis when it

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in the property at the time that they would receive it.

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So a lot of tax considerations oftentimes are going to

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come into play when Santa is going to be making gifts,

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so be sure Santa understands the tax ramifications of the

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gifts he or she is making. Of course, Amander and

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I would be honored to have an opportunity to help

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you protect your loved ones by putting together your estate plan,

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amending a current plan, or assisting you in settling a state,

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or looking at some of these tax considerations of the

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gifts that you're looking at, and working with your tax

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advisor as well. Simply head on over to Doyle LAWPC

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dot com. That's the website. There you're going to find

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complete information on how do you schedule a consultation with us?

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We have virtual consultations that will be by virtue of

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be available at the website. You could also call the

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to get that consultation scheduled for you as well. Perhaps

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you're looking at just an individual document. All you need,

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let's say, is a new healthcare power of attorney. Check

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you can order just in individual documents. A very common

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one is a certificate of trust. Let's say you're the

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trustee a trust and you're trying to sell real estate

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that the trust owns and the title company says, hey,

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you need to have a certificate of trust. Updated certificate

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of trust. Head over the Legal Store. You should be

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So again, all of that information, besides general information about

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us and what we do, et cetera, will be available

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at Doyle Law PC.

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Dot com.

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And that's going to be it for today's show. Again.

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One week to finish your Christmas shopping. I hope everything

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is going well for you as the holiday approaches. As always, oh,

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that you have an awesome day and an awesome week

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there won't be a program then, so Merry Christmas to

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all of you. There may or may not be a program.

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I haven't looked at the following week, but if we

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Best Wish is not only for merry Christmas, but for

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