The Internal Revenue Code grants spouses several tax benefits both during life and at death. Portability represents one of those benefits. Portability allows the surviving spouse to use the unused portion of the Applicable Exclusion Amount from their predeceased spouse. In Revenue Procedure 2022-32, the Internal Revenue Service extended the time during which a surviving spouse may elect portability without a Private Letter Ruling from two years to five years. Read on to learn more.
Estate Planning Attorney at Wilcox Attorneys, PA
Audra Bailey Wilcox is the owner and lead attorney at Wilcox Attorneys, P.A. The firm’s areas of practice include estate planning, long-term care Medicaid planning, business/farm succession planning, probate, wills, trusts, and estate planning. Audra began practicing law in 1998 after she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas...
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