In this article, we look at the benefits of gifting your surplus income to family members and how this can help reduce inheritance tax. Wealth / financial planningInheritance David Goodfellow Head of Wealth Pla
A “living inheritance” can mean giving children or grandchildren a step up at the start of their journey, and equity release is one way of gifting money to family when they need it most. But how generous can you be when it comes to gifting money to family members? How does inheriting...
We’ve written previously about various ways grandparents might want to structure the financial gifts they provide for their grandchildren. Grandparents may wish to include their grandchildren in their annual gifting plans as a regular part of their estate planning; in 2024, by combining their ...
Yes; one spouse can make a gift of twice his/her annual exclusion amount and elect to treat the gift as being made jointly by the donor and his/her spouse. This is known as gift-splitting. For example, suppose Husband would like to give $20,000 to his elderly mother, but this genero...
This is why I am planning on gifting $16,000 to all of my grandchildren at birth. It Doesn’t Have To Be $16,000 What if you only have $8,000? or $4,000? Any money is better than no money. A $4,000 contribution to each child still greatly increases their long term wealth. ...
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