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Sales to IDGTs
Can Be Both Powerful and Risky

(Unless You Do Them Right!)

For your high net worth and business owner clients, Sales to Grantor Trusts (also known as “IDGTs”) have always been a very attractive planning option. However, things may change quickly.

Sections the tax bill would turn grantor trust taxation on its head, and would adversely impact note sales to grantor trusts. Rising interest rates, a volatile market, and proposed tax reforms only complicates the planning.

More specifically, Section 1062 of the tax bill provides that the grantor trust rules are ignored whenever there is a transfer of property between a trust and the deemed owner of the trust as part of a sale or exchange transaction. This provision may eliminate the benefit of sales to defective trusts created after the date of enactment because gain will be recognized on the sale. If this provision passes, if a taxpayer wants to remove potential appreciation on a particular asset, there will be a cost to do so, as he or she will have to pay the immediate capital gain.

To help navigate the current environment, we have brought in nationally renowned CPA and tax planning expert, Robert S. Keebler, CPA/MST, AEP (Distinguished), CGMA, for a very timely and practical presentation entitled, “How Sales to Grantor Trusts Can Benefit Your Clients in 2023”.

During this 95-minute program, Bob will address the following:

  • How Sections 2901 and 1062 impact traditional sales to grantor trusts
    • Make sales to non-grantor trusts as early in the life of the asset being sold to minimize gain
    • Using non-grantor trusts to avoid the gain issue completely
    • Grandfathering rules
  • Assuring Grantor Trust status
  • Balancing bet-to-live and bet-to-die strategies
  • Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust (IDGT) strategies including
    • Sales to IDGTs
    • Structuring IDGT sales to avoid Sections 2701, 2702 and 2036 (and the Woelbing case)
    • Sales to an IDGT with a SCIN hedge
  • How to design note sales
  • The truth about the “9-to-1” seed money ratio
  • The use of guarantees
  • Applying Rev. Rul. 93-12 when your client has more than one child
  • Protective clauses for revaluation including the Wandry, Petter, McCord, and Christianson cases
  • Understanding and avoiding the mistakes highlighted in Smaldino v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2021-127
  • Designing QTIPs, GRATs, and LPA overflow clauses
  • GRAT overflow clauses and the new CCA
  • And much, much more!

Your purchase includes an instantly downloadable video and audio recording and PDF handout materials.  A PDF transcript is available as an add-on for an additional fee.

  • Program Title: How Sales to Grantor Trusts Can Benefit Your Clients in 2023
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  • Duration: 95 minutes

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Includes: MP4 Video (and Audio) Recording of Presentation plus PDF handout materials.

NOTE: PDF Transcript available as an add-on for an additional fee during checkout.

SKU RSK032023IDP

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Robert S. Keebler

CPA/PFS, MST, AEP (Distinguished)
Robert S. Keebler

Robert S. Keebler, CPA/PFS, MST, AEP (Distinguished) is a partner with Keebler & Associates, LLP and is a 2007 recipient of the prestigious Accredited Estate Planners (Distinguished) award from the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. He has been named by CPA Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Practitioners in the United States and one of the Top 40 Tax Advisors to Know During a Recession. His practice includes family wealth transfer and preservation planning, charitable giving, retirement distribution planning, and estate administration. Mr. Keebler frequently represents clients before the National Office of the Internal Revenue…

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