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An estate tax rule that income tax practitioners NEED to know…
The IRS just released proposed regulations implementing the modified carry over basis rules for decedents that died in 2010. If you think this is narrow and limited, you may be right in some sense, but every asset that passed during 2010 under these rules will be affected for many years to come. In 2010 the estate tax went away. But with the 2010 Tax Act (the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, Public Law 111-312 (TRUIRJCA)) (we’re just going with the 2010 Tax Act since I cannot with a straight face use the term TRUIRJCA) it came back. That 2010 Act retroactively reinstated the estate tax, except for those lucky souls dying in 2010. With an estate tax, as before 2009 and since 2011, the basis of property passing from a decedent is stepped up or down, as the case may be, to the fair market value. However, with the 2010 Act things got more complicated: the executor of the estate of a decedent who died in 2010 was permitted to elect a modified carry over basis (the Section 1022 Election). Under these rules the basis of property in the hands of a person acquiring the property from that decedent is treated as having been transferred by gift. Thus if the decedent's adjusted basis is less than or equal to the property's fair market value (FMV) determined as of the decedent's date of death, the recipient's basis is the adjusted basis of the decedent (i.e. the lower of the two). If the decedent's adjusted basis is greater than that FMV, the recipient's basis is limited to that FMV (i.e. again, the lower of the two). In the former case, where the decedent’s CLICK "READ MORE" TO THE RIGHT FOR THE LIST OF AFFECTED SECTIONS
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