What is the max per year parents can gift children tax free?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can do $18k per person. Out inlwas did thst. FIL gave me and DH $18k and then MIL $18k each. Thats $54k

Isn’t that $72K?

Yes. Cant do math today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are married, you can each give $18k a year to her. If she’s married, you can both give $36k to her and her spouse. If more, you’d just have to fill out a firm.

This. Anything over $18K yearly gift has to be accounted for with IRS and goes against your lifetime exemption (currently $13M, will sunset to $5.something in 2025 or 2026).

This. It’s on the political chopping block.

Not likely. The rich don't want this to sunset and will do what's necessary to make it stay around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This question comes up a lot. Here are the rules:

1. Any one individual can give any other individual up to $18k in a calendar year (as of 2024) without any reporting required. Yes that means a married couple can give one of their children a total of $36k, and then another $36k to their child's spouse. This $18k annual amount is called the gift tax exclusion. You can give this amount and there are zero tax implications.

2. If you give more than $18k in a year to one individual, you have to fill out IRS Form 709 as part of your tax return for the year you gave the large gift. This is a form to track how much you are giving over the course of a persons lifetime. Note that this does NOT mean you owe taxes on the amount above $18k. That only comes into play if:

3. You give an individual more than $13 million over the course of their life, as indicated by totaling the amounts on your Form 709s over the years. Once you cross that threshold, you owe 40% taxes on the amounts above it, including from your estate.

Form 709 is a 5 page form, it's a bit complicated. All regular tax software will be able to fill it out for you.

Only listen to this PP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are married, you can each give $18k a year to her. If she’s married, you can both give $36k to her and her spouse. If more, you’d just have to fill out a firm.

This. Anything over $18K yearly gift has to be accounted for with IRS and goes against your lifetime exemption (currently $13M, will sunset to $5.something in 2025 or 2026).

This. It’s on the political chopping block.

It had better be. $5m is nothing with this inflation. A house is $3m now a beach house $5m.

[Anonymous]

The "paperwork" is no big deal, btw. Do not let that matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are married, you can each give $18k a year to her. If she’s married, you can both give $36k to her and her spouse. If more, you’d just have to fill out a firm.

This. Anything over $18K yearly gift has to be accounted for with IRS and goes against your lifetime exemption (currently $13M, will sunset to $5.something in 2025 or 2026).

This. It’s on the political chopping block.

It had better be. $5m is nothing with this inflation. A house is $3m now a beach house $5m.

Nothing