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Calculating Estate Tax Portability Exclusion Amount: Filing Form 706, Rev Proc 2022-32 and Missed Election Relief

A live 110-minute CPE webinar with interactive Q&A

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

1:00pm-2:50pm EST, 10:00am-11:50am PST

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, January 31, 2025

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This course will provide tax advisers with a comprehensive guide to the computation and reporting of the deceased spouse's unused exemption (DSUE). The panel will explain when portability should be elected and demonstrate the calculation to show the DSUE amount transferred from the deceased spouse to the surviving spouse.

Description

Portability is a game-changer in estate planning. Whether the federal estate tax basic exclusion amount reverts in 2026 to $5,000,000 as adjusted for inflation under current law and with the anti-clawback regulations, ensuring that the unused exclusion of the first spouse to die can be used by the surviving spouse (or surviving spouse's estate) is a critical part of planning for married couples. Determining the DSUE amount involves complex and critical calculations. When a federal estate tax return is filed for the first spouse, the tax preparer makes the portability election.

The portability regulations require the executor of a decedent's estate to calculate the DSUE and report the amount on the estate tax return to elect portability for the surviving spouse. The regulations define the DSUE amount and prescribe a multi-step process for calculating the unused exemption amount.

The key for tax and estate advisers to remember is that portability is not automatic--the executor must elect it. The election requires filing a Form 706, U.S. Estate Tax Return to report the DSUE amount, even when filing an estate return may not be necessary. The surviving spouse can utilize the DSUE of the deceased spouse as an additional gift or estate tax exclusion. Missing the election to port an exemption can prove costly. Revenue Procedure 2017-34 offers relief for certain untimely elections, and Revenue Procedure 2022-32 allows portability to be elected as long as five years after a decedent's death.

Listen as our experienced panel provides detailed and practical guidance on calculating DSUE amounts and dealing with missed elections, discusses the planning opportunities, and offers illustrations on how to report those amounts on Form 709.

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Outline

  1. Estate tax overview: electing portability
  2. Deceased spousal unused exclusion (DSUE)
  3. Calculating and reporting DSUE on IRS Form 706
  4. Reporting DSUE on Form 709
  5. Case illustration: calculating DSUE
  6. Filing Form 706 solely to elect portability
  7. Rev Proc 2022-32 Electing Portability up to 5 Years After Death
  8. Missed elections
  9. Impact of potential law changes on portability

Benefits

The panel will review these and other critical components of estate portability reporting and DSUE calculations:

  • How to calculate DSUE amounts per IRS guidelines
  • Relief for missed portability elections
  • Determining whether to recommend portability election
  • How the anti-clawback proposed regulations affect the estate exemption
  • Reporting DSUE on Estate Tax Return Form 706 for a surviving spouse
  • Reporting DSUE on Gift Tax Return Form 709 for a surviving spouse

Faculty

Weeg, Christopher
Christopher C. Weeg, J.D., LL.M., CPA
Partner
Comiter Singer Baseman & Braun

Mr. Weeg, partner with Comiter Singer, is Board Certified in both Tax Law and in Wills, Trusts and Estates and is also...  |  Read More

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