The phrase
"gift exclusion" refers to the amount of money or property that you can give to someone without having to pay gift taxes.
Full definition
As of 2012, the
annual gift exclusion amount was $ 13,000, which means that you can gift property up to $ 13,000 and it's not a taxable event.
The following gifts are considered to be taxable gifts when they exceed the annual
gift exclusion amount.
For example, the annual
gift exclusion allows you to make an unlimited number of gifts if the value per recipient is below a certain value.
In addition, the contributions you are making into the wealth replacement trust to fund your life insurance policy are untaxed as long as they are less than the annual
gift exclusion tax of $ 14,000 per beneficiary, per contributor.
If the annual
gifting exclusion amount is not exceeded, neither lender nor borrower has filing requirements under gift tax law.
Tax tip: The children of older individuals could combine the
annual gift exclusion ($ 14,000 in 2016 and 2017) with this capital gains break and give appreciated long - term assets to their older parents.
Consider whether a trust would be best funded by making regular contributions up to the annual amount of
the gift exclusion tax, or through a life insurance policy.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows individuals to gift property without federal tax consequences as long as it falls within the guidelines for the annual
gift exclusion.
(This does not include the annual
gift exclusion, which applies as long as each annual gift to each recipient is less than $ 15,000.)
So, a grandparent could still use their annual
gift exclusion to give up to $ 15,000 to the same grandchild.
Basically, the $ 70,000 is way under the $ 5.25 Million lifetime exception, but is over the $ 14,000 annual
gift exclusion.
The annual
gift exclusion is now $ 15K per person.
The gift exclusion is $ 14k in 2013.
A prenuptial agreement that involves the conveyance of property from one fiance to the other, prior to the marriage, may trigger gift tax liability if the value exceeds the annual
gift exclusion.
The gift exclusion is used so the beneficiary of the trust receives a gift to withdrawal rights form the trust.
One exception to
the gift exclusion is gifts from one spouse to the other.
The gift exclusion isn't limited to relatives.
If you don't charge your parents rent, the free room and board would be treated as a gift, but because the total rent value probably would not exceed the annual
gift exclusion — $ 14,000 for 2013 — you wouldn't have to report the gift to the Internal Revenue Service, he says.
As for how the «gift» of real estate is structured, some parents buy it as a gift for their children and take advantage of tax
gift exclusions, others buy it as an investment property and retain ownership, and some are buying it through a family trust or joint ownership.
Yes, what ever the exclsion is as may apply, to the value, you can git a % that falls under
the gifting exclusion each year, that would be a pretty nice property.