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How do the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes work?

December 23, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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How do the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes work?

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The federal estate tax applies to the transfer of property at death. The gift tax applies to transfers made while a person is living. The generation-skipping transfer tax is an additional tax on a transfer of property that skips a generation.

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What is an inheritance tax?

December 23, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What is an inheritance tax?

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A type of wealth transfer tax in which the recipient, rather than the donor’s estate, is taxed.

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How many people pay the estate tax?

December 23, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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How many people pay the estate tax?

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About 4,100 estate tax returns will be filed for people who die in 2020, of which only about 1,900 will be taxable—less than 0.1 percent of the 2.8 million people expected to die in that year. 

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