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estate-gifting
Estate and gifting architecture for wealth management: the unified estate/gift/GST framework, lifetime exemption vs annual exclusion, basis step-up vs carryover, trust taxonomy, and beneficiary planning. Use when the user asks about the 'estate tax exemption', 'annual gift exclusion', 'step-up in basis', a 'revocable trust' or 'irrevocable trust', 'gifting to my kids', '529 superfunding', or the 'portability election'. Also trigger on questions about gift-splitting, Form 706 or Form 709, DSUE, ILITs, GRATs, SLATs, IDGTs, charitable remainder trusts, state estate or inheritance taxes, the SECURE Act 10-year rule for inherited IRAs, whether to gift appreciated stock now or leave it at death, or how to fund estate taxes for an illiquid estate. For income-tax angles of charitable giving (QCDs, donating appreciated securities, DAF bunching), see the tax-efficiency skill.