About the Course
Introduction
This CLE/CPE webinar will provide trusts and estates counsel and tax advisers guidance on key planning considerations for the portability of gift and estate tax exemptions. The panel will discuss making portability elections, available relief for missed elections, and the computation and reporting of a deceased spouse's unused exclusion change to the deceased spouse's unused exemption. The panel will also provide an overview of the issues that may arise regarding portability of gift and estate tax exemptions and completing Forms 706 and 709.
Description
Estate planning counsel and tax advisers have a powerful tool to achieve significant estate and gift tax savings for clients. Portability's current status requires counsel to consider methods to protect increases in value between spouses' deaths, attain better income tax results, and leverage strategies for diversifying approaches for using applicable exclusion amounts.
The portability regulations require the executor of a decedent's estate to calculate the deceased spouse's unused exclusion and report the amount on the estate tax return to elect portability for the surviving spouse. Determining this amount involves a multi-step process for calculating the unused exemption amount under the regulations.
By walking you through real-world examples for portability to maximize tax benefits for estate planning, our panel will examine the tax savings and other benefits of creating portability-based plans. Missing the election to port an exemption can prove costly. Revenue Procedure 2022-32 offers relief for certain untimely elections.
Listen as our panel discusses portability elections, available relief for missed elections, and the computation and reporting of a deceased spouse's unused exclusion change to the deceased spouse's unused exemption.
Presented By
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Mr. Bunge helps clients navigate the complex confluence of tax planning, business succession planning, and estate planning, and seeks to find the most elegant solutions possible to reach their goals.
Ms. Hicks is a Nashville-based attorney focusing her practice on Estate and Tax Planning. In this role, she works with families, business owners, and advisors to craft tax-efficient estate plans tailored to the needs of each client. Ms. Hicks also represents fiduciaries in probate, guardianship, and conservatorship matters, and assists local entrepreneurs with business formation and governance issues.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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CPE credit is not available on recordings.
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BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 90-minute webinar is accredited for 1.5 CPE credits.
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BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
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Date + Time
- event
Thursday, August 13, 2026
- schedule
1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
I. Gift and estate tax overview: electing portability
A. Estate, gift, and income tax savings
B. Mechanics of election
II. Deceased spousal unused exclusion
III. Filing Form 706 solely to elect portability
IV. Calculating and reporting on Form 706 and 709
V. Missed elections
VI. Impact of potential law changes on portability
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Potential estate, gift, and income tax savings when incorporating portability in an estate plan
- Mechanics involving elections for special consideration by counsel
- How to calculate deceased spouse's unused exclusion amounts per IRS guidelines
- Relief for missed portability elections
- Determining whether to recommend portability election
- How the anti-clawback regulations affect the estate exemption
- Reporting on Estate Tax Return Form 706 for a surviving spouse
- Reporting on Gift Tax Return Form 709 for a surviving spouse
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Establish whether portability elections are beneficial
- Ascertain how to maximize potential estate and gift savings when incorporating portability in an estate plan
- Verify eligibility for relief from missed portability elections
- Ascertain the simplified rules for estates filing Form 706 for the sole purpose of electing portability
- Decide whether reporting of DSUE on Forms 706 and 709 for a surviving spouse is correctly done
- Field of Study: Taxes
- Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
- Advance Preparation: None
- Teaching Method: Seminar/Lecture
- Delivery Method: Group-Internet (via computer)
- Attendance Monitoring Method: Attendance is monitored electronically via a participant's PIN and through a series of attendance verification prompts displayed throughout the program
- Prerequisite:
Three years+ business or public firm experience preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers or accountants. Specific knowledge and understanding of estate, gift and trust taxation including various trusts types, the unified credit, and portability.
BARBRI, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of Accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE Credits. Complaints regarding registered sponsons may be submitted to NASBA through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
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