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Investors & landlords
For starters, unless I'm missing something (and I very well may be) a revocable trust instantly becomes irrevocable upon death.
Is it better for the trust to sell the home or the beneficiaries to sell the home?
The only useful answer that anyone can really provide here is, "it depends". If the trust will have an overall AGI that is higher than that of the benificiary recipient after the sale, thus putting the trust in a higher tax bracket if the trust sold it, then it "might" be more beneficial tax-wise to go ahead and distribute it to the benificiary recipient and let them sell it. This can be difficult, because a trust is taxed differently than in individual is, and it usually results in the trust paying more in taxes than the individual would if the individual sold it after inheritance.
But if the trust taxable income is say, $100,000 after the sale and the individual taxable income is $300,000 after the sale, it might be more benificial for the trust to sell it. Then if the state also taxes that income you have to figure that in too. Remember, a trust does not get a "standard deduction" either. See the trust/estate tax rates/brackets for 2019 and 2018 at https://www.irstaxapp.com/2019-tax-bracket-for-estate-trust/
Personal tax brackets are at https://nationaltaxreports.com/see-the-irs-tax-brackets/