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You are here: Experts > Real Estate > Tax Planning: U.S. > Tax Planning > avoiding taxes
Expert: Mike Wellman
Date: 10/12/2007
Subject: avoiding taxes
Question
I am join owner of a house with my brothers. My brother is going to give me my share in cash - $300,000.00 He has it in various CD's and will give it to me as the CD's mature. But I don't want to loose half of it to taxes. Can my name be put onto his CD. And then can I take the money from the CD tax free as if I had been the one that put it there? I want to put it into a Bond fund to generate regular premiums. Can we avoid taxes if it is given as a gift and not as payment against the house?
Answer
Gifts are not taxable to the receiver. Your brother will have to file a gift tax return however. He may not owe any taxes since he has a lifetime exemption of $1,000,000 he can give away tax free.
He can also give $12,000 per person per year with no gift tax filing requirements. This is over an above the $1,000,000 exemption.
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