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Estate Tax Valuation: Buy-Sell agreement: • Buy-Sell agreement: This agreement is utilized to protect the decedent’s spouse or family, fix the value of the business interest for estate tax purposes and preserve business management. So long as the agreement is a true business agreement and not a device to pass property at less than fair…
Estate Tax : Valuation: The value is the fair market value. This is construed to mean the price at which the property would change hands in an arm’s length transaction between a willing buyer and a willing seller, neither being under any compulsion to buy or to sell and both having reasonable knowledge of the…
Estate tax: value closely held business Date: The valuation date is the date of the decedent’s death. An alternate date six months later may be elected but only if it decreases both the estate and the tax. If an alternative date is used, that date will be used for all assets of the estate. The…
ESTATE TAX Valuation continued: Listed securities: The mean between the day’s highs and lows on the valuation date is used. If the shares are sold ex-dividend, the amount that the estate will receive is used. The valuation of bonds includes the interest to the valuation date. Restrictions to or an impediment to sale can result…
The unified tax on transfers has three parts: gift tax(for transfers made during life), estate tax(for transfers made at death) and generation-skipping tax(for transfers that skip a generation). The gift and estate taxes are imposed on an individual for gifts during life and on his or her estate for transfers at death based upon the…
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