Gift tax exposure in the US. The annual exclusion applies per recipient per year and doubles with spousal splitting, and anything above it consumes lifetime exemption rather than triggering an immediate tax bill.
Also called: gift tax exclusion calculator, annual gift limit.
$31,000.00 counts against your lifetime exemption, of $50,000.00 given. The annual exclusion of 19000 per recipient applies before anything is counted. No tax is actually payable until the lifetime exemption is exhausted, and you have $13,959,000.00 left.
Computed from the published rates for the tax year you selected, which is not necessarily the current year. A calculation, not tax advice, and it does not know anything about your circumstances beyond the figures entered.
This is what the calculation gives for the numbers you entered. It is an estimate, not advice, and it knows nothing about your situation beyond those numbers. Rules for United States change on a published schedule; the effective date is shown on every rule-based tool.
Each recipient can receive up to the annual exclusion each year with no consequence at all, and a married couple can split a gift to double that. Amounts above the exclusion do not produce a tax payment: they reduce your lifetime exemption, which is large. Tax becomes payable only once that exemption is exhausted. A return is nonetheless required for gifts above the exclusion, which is the part people miss because no money is due with it.
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Taxable gift$31,000.00
50,000 less the 19,000 exclusion
Open this exampleTaxable gift$0.00
boundary: exactly covered
Open this exampleTaxable gift$0.00
degenerate case
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