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Estate Elements and Tools (Course Id 2380)

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Author : Danny C Santucci, JD
Course Length : Pages: 84 ||| Word Count: 31,438 ||| Review Questions: 79 ||| Final Exam Questions: 40
CPE Credits : 8.0
IRS Credits : 0
Price : $71.95
Passing Score : 70%
Course Type: NASBA QAS - Text - NASBA Registry - IRS Enrolled Agents
Technical Designation: Technical
Primary Subject-Field Of Study:

Taxes - Taxes for Course Id 2380

Description :

Estate planning doesn't have to be a daunting maze of tax codes and regulations; instead, it can be approached as a practical, real-life strategy to protect and distribute assets. This course focuses on the key elements and tools for a successful estate plan, from basic wills and healthcare directives to more complex trusts and partnerships, it explores comprehensive strategies that serve your unique needs. This approach encompasses a range of tools designed to minimize both income and estate taxes, such as strategic gifting, charitable donations, and various types of trusts. Additionally, it examines commonly used devices for transferring and controlling assets, like family limited partnerships, qualified personal residence trusts, and grantor-retained annuity trusts, each offering specific benefits in terms of tax efficiency and asset protection. By understanding these components and how they interact within the broader context of financial and family situations, practitioners can maximize the wealth transferred to beneficiaries, all while navigating the complexities of tax law with greater confidence and clarity.

Usage Rank : 10000
Release : 2024
Version : 1.0
Prerequisites : General understanding of federal income taxation.
Experience Level : Overview
Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed.
Additional Links :
Advance Preparation : None.
Delivery Method : QAS Self Study
Intended Participants : Anyone needing Continuing Professional Education (CPE).
Revision Date : 10-Oct-2024
NASBA Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase and with a minimum passing grade of 70% or better to receive CPE credit unless otherwise noted on the Course History page (i.e. California Ethics must score 90% or better). After logging in click on the Course History links on your My Courses page for the Begin date and Expire date for the Final Exam.
Approved Audience :

NASBA QAS - Text - NASBA Registry - IRS Enrolled Agents - 2380

Keywords : Taxes, Estate, Elements, Tools, cpe, cpa, online course
Learning Objectives :

As a result of studying each assignment, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below each assignment.

ASSIGNMENT       SUBJECT
Chapter 1                Estate Planning

       At the start of Chapter 1, participants should identify the following topics for study:

    * Build, preserve, & distribute
    * Legal documents
    * Estate planning team
    * Estate administration
    * Transfers within probate
    * Transfers outside probate
    * Transfers using a trust
    * Special planning tools
    * Facts
Learning Objectives:

       After reading Chapter 1, participants will be able to:
    1. Identify the elements of estate planning and the importance of well-drafted legal documents and cite the key team participants and their roles in the estate planning process.
    2. Recognize the probate process to guide clients through an average probate.
    3. Identify those estate tax-planning elements that remain relatively unaffected by recent legislation and recognize how each could benefit the taxpayer’s estate planning.
    4. Specify estate planning goals in designing an effective plan and primary plans that allow disposition outside of probate and identify trusts in at least one of two ways.
    5. Determine the mechanics of a living “A-B” and “A-B-C” (QTIP) trust and their ability to reduce death taxes and identify estate planning facts to develop an information base for an estate plan.
ASSIGNMENT       SUBJECT
Chapter 2                Estate & Gift Taxes

       At the start of Chapter 2, participants should identify the following topics for study:

    * Federal estate tax
    * Taxable gross estate
    * Deductions from the gross estate
    * Valuation
    * Estate tax return & payment
    * Tax basis for estate assets
    * Generation-skipping transfer tax
    * Gift taxes
    * Annual exclusion
    * Shifting income & gain
Learning Objectives:

       After reading Chapter 2, participants will be able to:
    1. Determine the taxable estate under §2501 and what assets are included in a gross estate using basic categories of property and transfers.
    2. Identify the components of the gross estate under §2031 including terminating, reversionary, and retained interests, certain gifts, tenancies, powers, and insurance.
    3. Specify estate deductions allowed under federal estate tax law and their tax advantages and disadvantages.
    4. Determine the value of a decedent’s assets using permitted elections, recognize special valuations and payment options, and identify the basis of property acquired from a decedent.
    5. Recognize the advantages of gift planning including estate reduction and the impact of the GST, specify the steps to compute gift tax identifying the gift tax exclusion amount, identify gift tax rates and the various gift tax exclusions, and cite the gift tax marital deduction requirements.
ASSIGNMENT       SUBJECT
Chapter 3                Plans, Devices & Techniques

       At the start of Chapter 3, participants should identify the following topics for study:

    * Disposition of property without a will
    * Disposition of property with a will
    * Joint tenancies & tenancies in common
    * Retirement plans & IRAs & life insurance
    * Gifts & payable on death accounts
    * Transfers using a trust
    * Annual gift tax exclusion & unlimited marital deduction
    * Annuities & trusts
    * Grantor retained income trusts
    * Buy-sell agreements
Learning Objectives:

       After reading Chapter 3, participants will be able to:
    1. Determine the distinctions between property disposition within probate under a will and intestate succession and identify ways to make transfers outside the probate system including the use of a trust.
    2. Specify special exclusions, deductions, and transfers to be used as estate-planning tools permitting clients to pass more wealth to heirs and save death taxes while retaining maximum control where possible.
    3. Recognize how specialized trusts and entities can reduce estate taxes and define grantor-retained income and personal residence trusts as estate-planning devices specifying their variations and their benefits to the grantor and beneficiaries.

Course Contents :

Chapter 1 - Estate Planning

Build, Preserve & Distribute

Legal Documents

Estate Planning Team

Attorney

Accountant

Insurance Agents

Financial Planner

Estate Administration

Probate Court

Executor

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Trustee

Family Members

Things to Be Done When Death Occurs

Planning Concepts

Unlimited Marital Deduction

Outright To Spouse

Marital Deduction Trust - §2056

Qualified Terminable Interest Property (QTIP) Trust

Applicable Exclusion Amount

Spousal Portability of Unused Exemption Amount - §2010(c)(2)

Stepped-up Basis - §1014

Basic Estate Planning Goals

Primary Dispositive Plans

Simple Will

Danger for Larger Estates

Probate

Transfers within Probate

Disposition of Property without a Will

Transfers outside Probate

Assets Not Subject to a Will

Assets Subject to a Will

Trusts

Types of Trusts

Living Trusts

Testamentary Trusts

Revocable & Irrevocable

Living “A-B” Revocable Trust

Living “A-B-C” (QTIP) Trust

Impact of Spousal Portability on Trust B under TUIRJCA

Estate Planning Facts

Family

Property

Domicile

Objectives

Existing Estate Plan

Chapter 2 - Estate & Gift Taxes

Federal Estate Tax

Persons Subject to Federal Estate Tax

Applicable Exemption (or Exclusion) Amount

Spousal Portability of Unused Exemption Amount - §2010(c)(2)

Estate Tax Rates

Progressive or Flat Rate

State Inheritance Tax

State Death Tax Credit Turns into Deduction – §2011 & §2058

Taxable Estate - §2051

Gross Estate - §2031

Owned Property - §2033

Interests Terminating At Death - Life Estates & Joint Tenancies

Interests Created After Death

Remainder Interests

Dower & Curtsey - §2034

Community Property Comparison

Gifts within Three Years of Death - §2035

Transfers from Revocable Trusts

Retained Life Interest - §2036

Retained Voting Rights

Lifetime Transfers With Reversionary Interests - §2037

Revocable Transfers - §2038

Annuities - §2039

Joint Interests - §2040

Qualified Joint Interests Between Spouses - §2040(b)

Powers of Appointment - §2041

Ascertainable Standard - The Safe Harbor Limitation

5/5 Power

Life Insurance - §2042

Incidents of Ownership

Community Property Issue

Deductions from Gross Estate

Estate Expenses & Claims - §2053

Inclusion of Administrative Expenses on Non-Probate Assets

Casualty & Theft Losses during Administration - §2054

Charitable Transfers - §2055 (§170 & §2522)

Immediate Contributions

Split-Interest Contributions

Charitable Remainder Trusts

Charitable Lead Trusts

Insurance Related Contributions

Unlimited Marital Deduction - §2056

Requirements

Net Value Rule

Non-Citizen Spouse

Qualified Domestic Trust

Gifts to Non-Citizen Spouses

Valuation

IRS Valuation Explanation - §7517

Alternate Valuation - §2032

Special Valuation - §2032A

Estate Tax Return & Payment - §6018

Installment Payment of Federal Estate Taxes - §6166

Computation

Eligibility & Court Supervision

Closely Held Business

Acceleration of Payment

Stepped-up Tax Basis for Estate Assets - §1014

Community Property Cost Basis

GST Tax - §2601

Predeceased Parent Exception

Exemption

Allocation

Retroactive Allocation

Gift Taxes - §2501 to §2524

Gift Tax Computation

Calculation Steps

Applicable Exemption Amount for Gift Tax - §2505

Application

Entity Rule

Valuation

Real Property

Stocks & Bonds

Annuities, Life Estates, Terms for Years, Remainders, & Reversions

Split Gifts - §2513

Community Property States

Annual Exclusion

Per Donee/Per Year

Gifts in Excess of the Annual Exclusion

Gifts Within the Annual Exclusion

Gifts within 3 Years of Death

Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

Exception for Minor’s Trusts - §2503(b) & (c)

Medical & Tuition Exclusion - §2503(e)

Qualifying Transfers

Interest-Free or Below-Market Loans

Gift Tax Marital Deduction

Nondeductible Terminable Interests

Gift Tax Charitable Deduction

Partial Interests

Selecting Gift Property

Gift Advantages

Gift Disadvantages

Gift Tax Returns

Inclusion of Gifts in the Estate

Shifting Income & Gain

Gifts before Sale

Transfers into Trust Prior to Sale

Installment Obligations

Transfer to Obligor at Death

Income in Respect of a Decedent

Reporting of Foreign Gifts - §6039(f)

Chapter 3 - Plans, Devices & Techniques

Estate Planning Techniques & Devices

Transfers within Probate

Disposition of Property without a Will

Disposition of Property with a Will

Transfers Outside Probate

Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship

Tenancy in Common

Retirement Plan & Individual Retirement Accounts

Life Insurance

Gifts

Payable on Death Accounts (POD)

Transfers Using a Trust

Special Planning Tools

Spending

Annual Gift Tax Exclusion

Applicable Exclusion Amount

Spousal Portability of Unused Exemption Amount

Unlimited Marital Deduction

Installment Payment of Estate Taxes

Private Annuities

Installment Sale to Family Member

Self-Canceling Installment Notes

Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust

Special Valuation of Farms and Businesses - §2032A

Crummey Trusts

Charitable Remainder Trusts

Minor Trusts

Family Limited Partnerships

Grantor Retained Income Trusts

Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs)

Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs)

Grantor Retained Unitrusts (GRUTs)

Buy-Sell Agreements

 

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