Most Americans have realized good appreciation in their home values from 2008 – 2018. With an IRS exclusion of $250,000 per person and $500,000 per couple, they can realize a handsome profit after two or more years of owning and residing in that home.
There is rarely a single person behind any wealth management strategy, and a Deferred Sales Trust is no different.
A DST has two beneficial uses: First, it allows you to structure an asset sale to defer the capital gains tax payments indefinitely. Second, it provides a vehicle for you to invest the full proceeds to best suit your financial and lifestyle objectives.
In Part 1, Charles and Maddie’s story illustrated how life and politics can make a father’s desire to provide for his daughter much harder than it should be. While not ultra-wealthy by any standard, Charles has enough retirement savings that he should be able to structure supplemental income for Maddie for many years should he succumb to heart disease complications or any other premature death.
If your estate is worth $1 million or more, minimizing the cut you will have to give to the IRS upon your death is likely a big component of your planning. In this two-part post, we will discuss the effect that incorporating a charitable trust has on your overall estate plan. This strategy could provide a stable, protected and higher source of income for your survivors than passing your assets to them in your will.
The deferred sales trust (DST) is a tax strategy that builds on the installment sale concept explained and regulated by Section 453 of the Internal Revenue Code. For nearly a century, this process has provided sellers with capital gains tax relief if they do not receive full payment for an asset at the time of the sale.
Actually, there is only one reason why anyone should defer capital gains taxes: more money.
Capital gains taxes often reduce profits by 40% or more. Finding ways to defer taxes and invest the excess is one of the ways that the 1% continues to build astronomical wealth.
Sellers of highly appreciated assets including owners of real property and businesses are keenly aware of the tax ramifications of selling their assets. People will choose to sell their businesses or property for many reasons, including health reasons, lifestyle choices, a desire to be free of the time and other commitments required to manage such assets. Many owners are reluctant to sell their appreciated assets because of the tax burdens they may face, even when doing so is at odds with the goals they desire and could achieve by selling.
It’s time to exit your career as a property owner, and you need to seriously consider what you are going to do with the sale proceeds of your real estate portfolio. At the very least, you are likely concerned with how much of the profit you stand to lose in capital gains taxes.
The current economic, political and social climate has a lot of us feeling like humanity is about to fall off the edge of the world. Okay, that’s overstating it a little. But still, the CDC predicts new COVID-19 cases could hit at least a dozen states hard in the next four weeks. Governments are scaling down or halting reopening phases. The New York Times reports that long-term unemployment projections remain grim.
An IRS 1031 exchange is a fantastic tool for an investor to transfer a real estate asset into another without recognizing a taxable capital gain. However, there are limitations of its use and strict rules governing its use: like-kind limitations, time windows and asset type restrictions. If you wish to diversify your real estate asset into other investments or if your asset is not real property to begin with, then you need a 1031 exchange alternative like a Deferred Sales Trust.