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- From: smiles@NMC.ED.RAY.COM (Kevin Ruddy)
- Subject: Re: Inheritance forthcoming...advice sought
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.212338.27705@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>
- Keywords: Loop Holes
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- Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
- References: <1992Nov13.221124.25275@novell.com> <1992Nov16.180359.26038@microsoft.com> <BxvCuL.3y5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 21:23:38 GMT
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- In article <BxvCuL.3y5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng) writes:
- >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?
-
- Yeah. Try and pry the money out of your fellow clubmembers' hands after
- they've got it!
-
- Actually, this could be done with third-party involvement; some kind of
- escrow would be in order. But if the reason for this is to sidestep an
- inheritance -- which assumes that the person with the money will die in the
- relatively near-term -- these clubs wouldn't last very long! Members who
- recently joined would be leaving just as quickly. The club's membership
- would be very hard to maintain, it would seem.
-
- Kevin
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- Kevin.Ruddy@NMC.ED.RAY.COM
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