In this episode of Tax Boss, we discuss gift tax and how to help your clients make friends by giving their wealth away.

Resources

Marilyn Monroe estate plan

IRS Gift Tax FAQs

Timestamps

1:17 Gift reporting and gift tax rules; when drafting a will to leave everything to one person with instructions to divide it further

2:30 The burden of gift reporting requirements

3:10 Gifts in excess of $15,000 in any calendar year need to reported to the IRS (married couples may gift up to $30,000 in a calendar year between the two of them)

3:30 Exceptions

4:20 Gifts and lifetime exclusion

4:39 Back to burdening one individual with reporting, and why her ‘actual’ gift would be less than what counts toward her lifetime exemption amount

6:10 Explaining why a Personal Representative solution is much better

6:42 What if your friend doesn’t gift out your estate the way you plan? What if she is in the middle of a divorce? Or is being sued?

7:17 Marilyn Monroe’s estate planning fail – why a woman she never met inherited everything

8:17 Leaving assets to one person in the hope they’ll gift to another person is a very, very bad idea