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- From: McAldon International Inc. <mcaldon@igc.apc.org>
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:52 PST
- Subject: Re: Inheritance forthcoming...advice so
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- |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?
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- This ingenious idea looks OK to me (not a CPA or attorney). But in most
- circles it would be difficult to find a bunch of people wishing to hand
- out this kind of money. I suspect the IRS could prevent somebody from
- acting as a broker, which probably would be needed if you wanted to
- find people for such a "club." No doubt if the idea proved to be legal
- and became popular, Congress would act. DMcKenzie
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- <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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- I believe this statement mixes apples & oranges. The annual gift is
- subject to exemption; the lifetime $600,000 "estate-tax exemption" is
- actually a credit of $192,800 against the estate tax, and in effect
- renders the first $600,000 of the estate taxfree. Prior exempt gifts
- have no bearing. DMcKenzie
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