@guywong wrote:For a cash basis estate, an expense advanced by an executor and reimbursed years later is deductible in the year the estate actually pays for it.
That is elementary and has been the case ad infinitum; no need for Google Gemini. Cash basis taxpayers deduct expenses in the year they are paid and recognize income in the year it is received, whether an individual, trust, estate, corporation, or partnership.
The overarching question here, I suspect, is exactly which expenses can be deducted by the estate (i.e., not all expenses incurred are deductible).
