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Wealth Transfer Tax Planning After The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act, Jeffrey A. Maine, John A. Miller
Wealth Transfer Tax Planning After The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act, Jeffrey A. Maine, John A. Miller
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On December 17, 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Among its many impacts, the TCJA increased the inflation-adjusted estate tax basic exclusion amount to $10,000,000 on a temporary basis. This has dramatic implications for many existing and future estate plans, including a major crossover impact on income tax planning. In this Article, we explain the operation of the federal wealth transfer taxes (the estate tax, the gift tax, and the generation skipping transfer tax) in the wake of the TCJA and dissect the basic tax planning techniques for wealth transmission. The overall design of this Article …
Partnership Taxation: A Deceased Partner's Final Year, Michelle A. Cecil
Partnership Taxation: A Deceased Partner's Final Year, Michelle A. Cecil
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One significant and unresolved partnership taxation problem is the taxation of a deceased partner's final year. In a recent case of first impression, Estate of Hesse v. Commissioner, the Tax Court held that the widow of a deceased partner could not include his share of partnership losses incurred during the year of his death on their final joint income tax return. Consequently, the widow lost thousands of dollars in tax refunds because the loss deductions could not offset prior taxable income. The Tax Court believed the result was illogical and unfair, but nevertheless found that the Code required the decedent's …