Letter to Client Advising on the Tax Impact of Sale of Property by Installments

I would like to bring to your attention the assess ramifications of your expressed consideration to cheat on your estate to us. But before I can do that, I consider it very essential for you to understand how ABC hopes work. This will affect initial knowledge of how the more common AB puts work. AB Trust An AB Trust offers creditor, lawsuit, divorce and bankruptcy protection for the surviving mate in sum total to similar protection for wizs heirs when they take charge of their inheritances. The shoemakers last of the first partner makes the Living Trust be divided into ii distinct Trusts.Trust A is held in the name of the support spouse date trust be is in the name of the departed spouse. some(prenominal) the two trusts argon meant to be for the benefit of the surviving as immense as they be alive, but in the end the assets will go to the spouses heirs. The surviving spouse, to a pre-agreed and stipulated level, controls Trust B though it belongs to the beneficiarie s named in the Trust. entirely the assets and properties in Trust B pass to the originally stated beneficiaries upon the end of the surving spouse.The properties and assets in Trust B are considered not to be the surving spouses situation and for that reason they are usually not typeface to tax. ABC Trust An ABC Trust has clauses that direct the trustee the rescindable Living Trust, upon the occurrence of the first spouses death, to divide the Trust into three distinct and sepa judge Trusts as opposed to two in an AB Trust. This has the effect of providing a even greater protection from creditors for the living spouse. Just as is the case with AB Trust, the A Trust is a revocable Living Trust for the living spouse.The Band C Trusts are irrevocable and are usually meant to benefit the surviving spouse while they are alive, but the assets in both Trusts eventually transfer to the deceaseds heirs on passing on of the surving spouse. Currently, $3. 5 million is the tax exempt amoun t per individual and $7million for a couple. Trust C holds any(prenominal) all overflow over and above the $7million for couples, and this is contrary to AB Trust where the overflows of Income go to Trust A. This extends the creditor, bankruptcy, divorce and lawsuit protection to the surviving spouse in addition to the same protection offered to heirs, if they wish so.Taxation of induction gross exchanges In certain situations the installment exchange of property method allows a sale of property without requiring the seller to recognize and report gains made on the property until the actual receipt of the payment. The rules that govern installment sales are well laid down. In addition the gain deferral achieved though installment sale treatment, in particular circumstances, and enables the transferor to spread gain over the period of payment of installments depending on the proportion the gross profit on sale carries to the price of the contract.If the seller and the buyer mak e an agreement to specifically allocate installments, then tax deferrals can be maximized. The rule for eligibility for installment sale treatment, the seller must receive not less than one payment after the end of year of tax in which the sale occurs . However, there are a number of ineligible proceedings, which include among others transactions where the overall sale results into a loss and where transaction involves sale of inventory. mainly speaking, the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA 97) had the impact of reducing the maximum capital gains rate to twenty per cent.However, some other changes have been made to the taxation of gains on depreciable real property. Complexities have often arose in administration of these new viands to depreciable real estate sold subject. This however is of little concern for you because your property is non-depreciable. Considering the facts regarding the matter as laid down above, I am delightful to inform you that your effort of reducing the amount of tax that would be referable as gain on sale is likely to succeed because the sale will be done at market value therefrom no losses shall be realized on the sale, in addition to the fact that the property is not an inventory.Furthermore, the tax will de deferred to the beneficiaries of your estate and therefore will likely be spread and shared among several beneficiaries and and then the tax burden will be spread among several shoulders as well. The fact that your estate is held in an ABC Trust is even pricy news because the level of protection provided to the estate, as well as the beneficiaries if they so wish, against lawsuits and creditors after the grantor passes is significantly high. I therefore strongly recommend that you go ahead with the sale as you stand to gain a quite a little in from such a sale.