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Amendments should be made to the proposed IRC section 671 regulations on the use of grantor trust rules in conjunction with nonexempt employee trusts, including foreign employees' retirement funds. The proposed surplus assets calculation method is burdensome and generally accepted accounting principles should be used instead. The Form 5471 filing requirement should be eliminated and the reasonable funding method exception should be broadened. Also, the provision on the definition of "foreign employees' trust" should be clarified.
One way to reduce taxes tomorrow is to 'freeze' assets today. In this article, the author explains two ways to freeze assets that have interested his key clients. In addition, these techniques allow for the sale of large amounts of needed additional life insurance. Effective strategies to freeze assets include the gifting or selling of assets to "grantor trusts." Both techniques freeze assets at today's values, but they take different forms and lead to different consequences. With a grantor-retained annuity trust (GRAT), clients can gift and transfer income-producing assets to an irrevocable trust, receiving a stream of income from the annuity for the term of the trust. If clients and their advisors are willing to be more aggressive, they might consider a tactic not specifically spelled...
... the powers delineated in the grantor trust rules of the Internal Revenue Code. In the past, the fac...
... placement of the debtors' property into a trust and appointment of a trustee to liquidate all of t... pay the trust's taxes under the Code's "grantor trust" rules is rejected. In re Sonner, 53 B. R. 8...
... 1 of the Internal Revenue Code (the grantor trust rules) shall apply only to the extent such a...
Electing small business trust The 1997 electing small business trust (ESBT) provisions, which allow an S corporation to be owned by an ESBT, conflict with some existing state laws. Penn and Calif tax laws on S status, for example, do not conform with the revised federal provisions. Other unresolved issues include trust distribution treatment when an ESBT holds other assets and the coordination between grantor trust and ESBT rules. The rules do provide more flexible estate planning options for S corporation owners.
... that, if enacted, would make many common trust arrangements far less effective. . New Proposal: EElimination of Transfer Tax Benefits of Grantor Trusts . A common trust planning technique is to e... tax payable as a result of the proposed rules would be payable from the trust, and not by the gr...
... knows the intricacies of the grantor trust rules of Secs. 671-677. . This item has three sections. ...
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