To: Smokin' Joe
How does incorporation help? Upon death of the corporation's owner the heir will have to pay the tax on the shares of the corporation they inherit. The corporation might help by keeping the farm in one piece even if partial ownership is sold to pay the tax, or with tricky accounting you might be able to claim the corporation is worth less than the farmland and equipment are worth and thus avoid the tax, but other than that I don't see how to avoid the tax.
20 posted on
11/18/2012 7:46:12 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
To: KarlInOhio
Distribute shares of the Corporation to the heirs while you are alive.
21 posted on
11/18/2012 7:51:31 AM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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