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- From: markr@mot.com (Mark)
- Subject: Re: Inheritance forthcoming...advice sought
- Reply-To: markr@mcil.comm.mot.com
- Organization: MCIL
- Distribution: misc.invest
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:20:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.102037.17601@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Keywords: Loop Holes
- References: <1992Nov13.221124.25275@novell.com> <1992Nov16.180359.26038@microsoft.com> <BxvCuL.3y5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BxvCuL.3y5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov16.180359.26038@microsoft.com>, philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper) writes:
- >>This is true, but it doesn't stop at 10K per year. You can gift 10K
- >>per person per year. So in this case, the person could gift him 10K,
- >>his wife 10K and each of his 12 children 10K (all inheritance tax-free)
- >
- >What is stopping people from forming a "gift-swap-club" (read tax evasion
- >joint)? Say the club has 10 members. All of them want to gift their
- >one kid $100K this year. Here is scheme:
- > Each member gifts his/her kid $10K;
- > Each member gifts the other nine members $10K each;
- > Each member then gifts $10K to every other members' kids.
- >
- >$100K from each member channeled to his/her kid tax free. Any problem
- >besides upsetting IRS?
-
- Yes, a portion of each person's one-time 600K estate-tax exemption is
- being used up. It is better to give the gift over a period of years.
- (mom can give 10K/yr and dad can give 10K/yr, thats 20K/yr/kid)
-
- Mark
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