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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]
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...
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.
The maximum estate tax, gift tax, and generation-skipping tax rate, which was 55% in 2001 (with an additional 5% for estates over $10,000,000 in order to eliminate the benefit of the lower estate tax brackets) was reduced to 50% in 2002, with an additional 1% reduction each year until 2007, when the top estate tax rate became 45%.
Texas residents may pay no income tax but do have to deal with a 6.25% sales tax rate and property taxes that are among the highest in the nation. In addition, Texas’s minimum wage is only $7.25 ...
Pros and Cons of Regressive Taxes Pros. Easy to understand. Regressive (or flat) taxes are easy to understand. You know exactly how much you’ll pay and can calculate expected taxes easily. Fair ...