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anon291last Thursday at 6:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Suppose I defer $1 million in taxes until after I'm dead, and my estate conveniently does not have $1 million in assets left. What happens?

In the meantime, I gave all the assets to my children while I was alive

The answer is nothing. The government eats the loss.


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HWR_14last Thursday at 9:39 PM

The government looks at your transactions as designed to produce that outcome and claws back the money from your children.

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PowerElectronixyesterday at 11:37 AM

What loss? It was never the state's money to begin with.