Pedro Bourbone is the founder and owner of a highly successful small business and, over the past

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Pedro Bourbone is the founder and owner of a highly successful small business and, over the past several years, has accumulated a significant amount of personal wealth. His portfolio of stocks and bonds is worth nearly $8,000,000, owns real estate worth $6,000,000, and generates income from dividends and interest of nearly $320,000 per year. With his salary from the business and his dividends and interest, Pedro has taxable income of approximately $700,000 per year and is clearly in the top individual marginal tax bracket. Pedro is married and has three children, ages 16, 14, and 12. Neither his wife nor his children are employed and have no income. Pedro has come to you as his CPA to discuss ways to reduce his individual tax liability as well as to discuss the potential estate tax upon his death. You mention the possibility of making gifts each year to his children. Explain how annual gifts to his children will reduce both his income during lifetime and his estate tax at death.

Stocks
Stocks or shares are generally equity instruments that provide the largest source of raising funds in any public or private listed company's. The instruments are issued on a stock exchange from where a large number of general public who are willing...
Portfolio
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Federal Taxation 2019 Comprehensive

ISBN: 9780134833194

32nd Edition

Authors: Thomas R. Pope, Timothy J. Rupert, Kenneth E. Anderson

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