A charitable freeze technique that used a complex contribution formula was considered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Petter v. Commissioner, No. 10-71854 (2011). The charitable freeze is a technique that readjusts a simultaneous gift/charitable contribution combo if the IRS successfully challenges a valuation of the gift, shifting additional value from the gift component to the charitable contribution component to eliminate any gift taxation resulting from the challenge.

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For previous coverage of estate planning in Advisor’s Journal, see What Next? ILITs and Estates under 5MM (CC 11-114).

For in-depth analysis of estate freeze techniques, see Advisor’s Main Library: E—Estate Planning For The Family Business.

Tags: Charitable organization, Donation, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Tax, TurboTax, United States, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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