When a person dies, filing final tax returns becomes mandatory for the executor of the estate. The executor must file a final federal income tax return and a final state income tax return (if required) reporting all income earned by the decedent in the final year of life up until the day of death. Furthermore, even if the executor hires a tax professional to file the final tax returns, the executor must know how to prepare the information needed by the tax professional. Otherwise, the tax professional will charge the estate a substantial amount to handle the preparation as well as the filing of the final tax returns.
How to Prepare the Final Tax Returns
As explained in the article Track the Estate Income, income earned by the decedent in the final year of life up until the day of death requires reporting on the final tax returns. In addition, since most 1099’s will report income earned for the entire year, the executor needs to be aware that the 1099’s need adjustment. Therefore, the following steps are necessary for the executor to prepare the final tax returns accurately:
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• Review bank statements, brokerage statements, pay stubs or direct deposit statements, etc. to identify current income that needs reporting. If a physical copy is not available to the executor, bank statements and other statements are available online through the financial institution. If the executor has no access to the account, the executor should call the institution and ask for the documents.
• Review any 1099’s received to see if the income reported is for the entire
While grantor trusts are commonly created as part of an estate plan, estate planners may inadvertently be creating income tax issues that trustees and tax preparers must deal with during the administration. When the grantor of a grantor trust dies, or the grantor trust status terminates during the life of the grantor, for the most part the tax consequences are well established. What is unclear is what happens if the grantor trust had an outstanding liability to the grantor at the death of the grantor. This paper addresses the issue and how it may be treated. Part I of this paper will briefly address the history of
1. [LO 1] Compare and contrast different ways in which a taxpayer triggers a realization event by disposing of an asset.
Before the 95-year old died, the taxes such as the estate, capital gains various other federal and state levies would have played a major role in his final decision.
Sadly, this isn't the case, as every estate goes through the process, as it must be determined who gets his or her assets. Debts must be paid, assets distributed and the final wishes of the deceased respected, when possible. There are laws governing the process, and they tend to be complex.
Discuss filing requirement? - Filing requirements are specified by law for each type of taxpayer. In addition, all corporation must file a tax return annually regardless of their taxable income. Therefore, estates and trusts are required to file annual income tax returns if their gross income exceeds $600. In the filing requirements for individual taxpayers are a little more complex as they depend on the taxpayer’s filing status, age and gross income. The gross income thresholds are calculated as the sum of the standard deduction, additional deduction for taxpayers age 65 or older and personal exemptions that should be applied to each respective filing status. In addition, the amounts are indexed each year for inflation. Thus, when a taxpayer is due a refund which happened to occur only when
I direct that all legally enforceable debts as well as funeral expenses, be paid from the assets within my estate at the most practicable time after my death. I direct any and all other death taxes, or any property of all kinds tangible and intangible as a part of my gross estate, shall be paid by my residuary estate.
Calculate the federal tax owing by the estate assuming that the first year-end is as late as is possible and that tax rates and credit bases remain at the 2014 level.
That's our first level. Dealing with the trusts and the estates is-- I think it overwhelms CPAs. Some of them speak this language, some of them don't, they just handle individual and sometimes corporate returns. But you get into these 241s, it's a whole different world.
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A basic estate with no more than a home and bank account can expect to pay minimal accounting costs. If you have a much larger estate with stocks, bonds, property, a small business, and several pieces of property, your accounting costs will be much greater. Accounting costs will even cover filing an estate’s federal tax return if it needs to be done.
The first option will treat the surviving spouse the same as any other beneficiary and require
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Over the past few months, the federal estate tax has been a popular topic in the news. Also known as the death tax, this tax is applied to the transfer of an estate at passing away of an individual. Generally, said estate includes all assets of the person who passed away, including financial assets like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds; real assets, like houses, land, or other tangible property; and proceeds from life insurance policies. The United States federal government established the estate tax that is currently implemented in 1916. Since then, the estate tax was phased out in 2001, so that the rates dropped until eliminated in 2010. However, this legislation was not lasting, and the estate tax returned in 2011.