Federal Estate and Gift Taxation/Estate Planning

Course Information

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Meeting Times

Day Time Location
TUE, WED 1:15 - 2:05 pm JON 6.207

Evaluation Method

Type Date Time Location
Final exam (administered by Exam4 in Open Laptop mode) April 29, 2023 8:30 am 3.124

Description

This course examines the federal wealth transfer tax system, including the estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes; in particular, their application to a wide variety of gratuitous transfers, both lifetime and testamentary. In the case of the gift tax, it considers the concept of a "transfer of property by gift," complete and incomplete transfers, the annual exclusion, and gift-splitting. In the case of the estate tax, it considers the concept of "gross estate," including interests still owned at death, property transferred during life subject to retained interests or powers or in contemplation of death, property subject to powers of appointment, jointly owned property, life insurance, and annuities and employee death benefits. As to both the gift tax and the estate tax, it focuses heavily on the marital and charitable deductions, the unified credit, and problems of valuation. It also considers the generation-skipping tax, but in much less detail. Throughout, it relates the material under consideration to basic, and sometimes not-so-basic, estate planning, including the creation of trusts, both revocable and irrevocable. Prerequisite/Co-requisite: Wills & Estates. FIT is NOT a prerequisite. Related Course Areas Property, Tax

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Federal Estate & Gift Taxes: Code & Regulations, Including Related Income Tax Provisions *
Wolters Kluwer Editorial Staff Publication
Wolters Kluwer , edition: 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8080-5719-2
Federal Taxation Of Wealth Transfers *
Willbanks, Stephanie J.
Aspen , edition: 4
ISBN: 978-1-4548-7059-3

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Important Class Changes

Date Updated
03/22/2023 Exam information updated