Word: stocking
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...published letters that criticized Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's recent actions and their effect on the stock market [LETTERS, April 3], but many people have not considered Greenspan's uncanny ability to see into the future. When his actions impact the dollar, critics say nothing, but when they affect markets around the world, then all of a sudden people are full of ideas about how things should be handled. Bashing Greenspan is not productive; why not be patient? Deep down, we know that he sees the whole picture and that he won't let us down. JAMES FOX Dundalk...
...easiest way is through annual gifting. Married couples can give away up to $20,000 a year ($10,000 for singles) tax free to as many people as they like. Paying tuition is tax free and does not count against the annual gift limit. If you have highly appreciated stock, that can be given to charity at market value, and the charity does not pay tax on the embedded capital gain...
...stock that you expect will rise a great deal before you die, consider gifting the stock up to the annual gift limit. "Do it early, before the value goes up," says Karen Goldberg, a tax lawyer with accounting firm Grant Thornton. "That way you keep future appreciation out of your estate...
...that will pay you at a market rate, but with any excess returns remaining in the trust and passing to heirs outside your estate. A typical example would be someone planning to sell a family business within five years. You set up a GRAT with low-priced pre-sale stock. The GRAT pays you back the equivalent of about 8% a year, based on current rates. But actual returns are likely to be far higher when the company is sold. The excess returns stay out of your estate...
...sole discretion over when to sell any assets held by the partnership. The irs then discounts the value of the assets in the partnership by up to 40%, as they are illiquid to the general partners. In this way, a married couple could gift, say, $20,000 of partnership stock (staying at the annual tax-free gift limit) with an underlying value of $28,000. Good deal...