You would take off the annual exemption of 15,000 (in 2012) and calculate the tax on the remaining $60,000, which could be as much as 50 percent. However, the gift giver can apply part of their lifetime gift tax exemption and not pay any tax.
Yes.
No...not deductible..if a dependent or not. It's a gift....as such, much morte than that and YOU could owe gift tax.
If it is a gift from you to her, and YOU paid for it, if a tax is applied, you will pay it.
Yes, if the gift exceeds the gift-giver's annual exemption of $15,000 per recipient, the gift giver must pay the gift tax.
Each state has different laws governing such transactions.
If you make gifts that are less than the annual exemption, you can avoid having to pay any gift tax. In 2012 the exemption is $15,000 per person,. not including charities and not including approved educational savings funds for children.
Sure - you can actually gift an unlimited amount to your spouse without any gift tax consequences..the 12K (13 K for 2009) limit is for gifts to others.
There is a federal gift tax if someone gives you more than the $15,000 annual gift tax exemption, and they would need to file an IRS Form 709 and pay the tax.
Under US tax law, your lifetime federal gift tax exemption would be depleted by the amount of the gift in excess of the annual limit to one person. If the annual limit is, say, $12,000, and you give the equity to an individual, you would lose 110,000 from your $1.2 million-dollar gift tax exemption (or whatever it is when you die and your estate is distributed to non-charitable beneficiaries), not including gifts to a surviving spouse (which are estate tax-free). You could reduce the loss of exemption by giving the equity to more than one person, or spreading it over multiple years.
For 2011, the federal estate tax exemption will be $5 million and the estate tax rate for estates valued over this amount will be 35%. The estate tax has also become unified with federal gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes such that in 2011 the lifetime gift tax exemption and generation-skipping transfer tax exemption will be $5 million each and the tax rate for both of these taxes will also be 35%. There is NO federal level inheritance tax.
In some regions, gift certificates are exempt from PST because they are considered "non-tangible personal property" rather than physical goods. This exemption helps to avoid double taxation when the gift certificate is redeemed for taxable goods or services.