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Often there is someone the grantor knows who the grantor suggests to be the trustee. Typical choices are the grantor's spouse, sibling, child, or friend. Any of these may be an acceptable choice from a legal perspective, but may be a poor choice for other reasons.
The key features of irrevocable trusts are reflected below: No Modifications: Once you create the trust, it can't be changed or modified. Personal Tax Benefits: When appreciated assets, such as stock and real estate, are transferred into the trust, the grantor will save on capital gains taxes.
Irrevocable trusts can also protect assets from being used in determining Medicare eligibility. Once an irrevocable trust is funded, the trust property cannot be taken back by the grantor without the consent of the beneficiary. It is legal to name a beneficiary as trustee, such as a spouse.
A Trust (or Marital Trust)The surviving spouse must be the only beneficiary of the trust during his/her lifetime, however, at the time of the second spouse's death, the trust can pass to any other named beneficiaries like children, grandchildren, etc.
An irrevocable trust reports income on Form 1041, the IRS's trust and estate tax return. Even if a trust is a separate taxpayer, it may not have to pay taxes. If it makes distributions to a beneficiary, the trust will take a distribution deduction on its tax return and the beneficiary will receive IRS Schedule K-1.
Individual trusts for each grandchild. Most grandparents choose to put equal amounts of money into each grandchild's individual trust. The trustee can then decide when and how much money to distribute to each grandchild from their individual trust based on the standards written into the trust.
Beneficiaries of a trust typically pay taxes on the distributions they receive from the trust's income, rather than the trust itself paying the tax. However, such beneficiaries are not subject to taxes on distributions from the trust's principal.
Irrevocable trust distributions can vary from being completely tax free to being taxable at the highest marginal tax rates, and in some cases, can be even higher. Therefore, understanding the tax implications is critically importantwhich is why we focus on irrevocable trusts in the discussion below.
No Modifications: Once you create the trust, it can't be changed or modified. Personal Tax Benefits: When appreciated assets, such as stock and real estate, are transferred into the trust, the grantor will save on capital gains taxes. An irrevocable trust doesn't avoid taxes entirely.
A SLAT allows the donor spouse to transfer up to the donor spouse's available exemption amount without a gift tax. When the donor spouse dies, the value of the assets in the SLAT is excluded from the donor spouse's gross estate and are not subjected to the federal estate tax.