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Finance Allah Shmoop What is gift tax Of those I

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Rs people They ruin everyone's fun You can't even give

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away things anymore without it being taxed Even have some

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t Khun spill into a harbor Boston gift tax party

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Anyone know well so overly Simply as of two thousand

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nineteen you're allowed to give about fifteen grand a year

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with the expectation that this number will rise a bit

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with inflation year after year And on that fifteen grand

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or less there is no tax owed You have to

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declare to the IRS people that you gifted but you

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don't have to write them An incremental check and all

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kinds of little tweaks to the definitions of givers and

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receivers have made the state transfer easier in this country

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For example of Family Khun Gift in multiple directions from

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multiple sources like each year Mama Bear Khun Gift fifteen

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grand to baby bear than fifteen grand too sulky teenager

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texting bear then another fifteen grand Teo the Elder Bear

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for a total of forty five grand gifted from Mama

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Bear tax free Then Daddy Bear can do the same

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for each kid and the elder such that they can

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gift in one year ninety thousand dollars total in gifts

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with no tax And there are other twists They aren't

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limited to gifting Fax like they Khun gift art and

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jewelry and mountain vats of honey or porridge or privately

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appreciated stock like stock they bought for a dollar is

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now trading at fifty and they can give fifteen grand

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worth of that stock So Hugh may reasonably wonder how

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they would determine the value of private stock if it's

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not public or really any of the above None actively

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traded and valued things like jewelry and stuff like that

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Well there isn't a daily market for shares in private

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companies or artwork or jewelry Usually So how do you

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assess the value Well usually value is taken it whatever

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the last round was invested at by professional investors of

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its private stock even if it was five years ago

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and the company has gone up a ton in value

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But if it has well it's likely the company will

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have been required to get a new four o nine

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a valuation which is basically just a few high priced

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lawyers assessing professionally what the company is worth based on

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other similar companies that were sold or funded recently It's

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the best guess of lawyers and accountants and the same

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applies to appraisals of jewelry and art And like if

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your parents are giving that stuff away to you too

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willing to keep it under fifteen grand the arrest I

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won't bug you So you can imagine that a family

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wanted to transfer as much as they possibly could to

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their kids Will The impetus could involve a whole lot

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of downward pressure on valuations such that the fifteen grand

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that was tax free gift herbal might really be worth

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now something more like twenty grand or thirty grand or

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maybe even fifty grand were it to sell that day

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That is private valuations carry all kinds of risks The

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gift ease as well Like if they want to sell

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them like Mama thinks that jewelry a piece that was

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made for her is really worth thirty four thousand dollars

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And he's getting away with something stating It's only worth

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fifteen But then baby there goes to try to sell

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it on eBay and gets like three grand for it

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Well may be discounting private things make sense The key

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notion here is that fifteen grand of value can be

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transferred tax free legally Happily the IRS has no tax

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on that But above there there's all kinds of gift

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tax right So what happens if Mama Bear gives baby

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bear twenty thousand dollars in cash one year You know

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Tio enable the baby or to buy a top of

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the line Dr Braun's porridge warmer Well either Baby bear

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can just pay income tax on the five thousand dollars

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difference like fifteen grand was tax free and then five

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thousand above that that five thousand above it is taxable

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as a gift tax And in fact it's Mama Bear

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who would technically be legally responsible for paying that tax

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on the five grand But baby Bear can do it

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if well you know if she wants or she can

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write Mama bear a check for five grand back and

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it's the net number that the IRS cares about There's

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all kinds of other gift taxes the president's change them

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limits and maximums all the time Currently a family Khun

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Gift in about eleven million dollars in change with essentially

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no estate tax when they died That protects the farms

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in the Midwest from having to be sold When you

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know great Grandpa Joe dies and he on the farm

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for one hundred years That's how gift taxes air set

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up And well if someone gives you a horse isn't

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there a phrase about looking a gift horse in the

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mouth You know be careful with those things by

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