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The U.S. generation-skipping transfer tax (a.k.a. "GST tax") imposes a tax on both outright gifts and transfers in trust to or for the benefit of unrelated persons who are more than 37.5 years younger than the donor or to related persons more than one generation younger than the donor, such as grandchildren. [1]
Assets left to any other heir, including the decedent's children, may be taxed if that portion of the estate has a value in excess of the lifetime gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax exemption amount. As of 2023, the federal exemption amount was $12,920,000. For a married couple, the combined exemption is $25,840,000. [10]
That data showed that of the 4,000 U.S. citizens surveyed who are planning to file taxes in 2025, evenly divided by gender and generation, some didn’t know all they needed to about filing taxes.
Some states impose an inheritance tax on recipients of bequests. Gift taxes are levied on the giver (donor) of property where the property is transferred for less than adequate consideration. An additional generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax is imposed by the federal and some state governments on transfers to grandchildren (or their ...
The generation-skipping tax could apply and if so, you’d be subject to the highest applicable federal estate tax rate. Establishing a generation-skipping trust is one way to get around that.
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A dynasty trust is a trust designed to avoid or minimize estate taxes being applied to family wealth with each subsequent generation. [1] By holding assets in trust and making well-defined (or even no) distributions to beneficiaries at each generation, the assets of the trust are not subject to estate, gift or generation-skipping transfer tax (GST) taxes.
Generational wealth -- the various financial assets that are passed down through families to children, grandchildren and beyond -- can come with pretty severe tax burdens for heirs. Estate...