The IRS has ruled that two trusts are both composed of five separate shares and that when one of the settlor's five children died, there was a taxable termination of that child's share for purposes of the generation-skipping transfer tax and that the children of that deceased child do not qualify for a generational step-up.
2011 TNT 89-60
Posted by Adam Fleischer, Associate Editor, Wealth Strategies Journal
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