My wife and I own several rental properties that we titled into a revocable trust with our two children as beneficiaries. We live in a community property state and the rentals are also in the same state. The rentals in the trust have been taxed under our joint return with no separate EIN#. When one of us passes will the other get a full stepped-up basis and wipe away depreciation just like if the rentals were not titled in a trust? If so, does the surviving spouse enter the date of death for taking the rentals out of service and start a new rental with the new higher depreciation amount on the same day or the following day?
