Tax Court Allows Only 2.5% Of Claimed Easement Charitable Deduction
Significantly, none of petitioner’s experts who testified at trial opined as to the fair market value of the unencumbered easement property. Rather, they determined the net present value of the subsurface aggregate and ignored the regulatory definition of fair market value. The regulations require us to determine fair market value on the basis of the price that a willing buyer and a willing seller would agree to
Charitable Distributions From IRAs – What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
Essentially the determination that a distribution is a QCD is on the taxpayer not on the trustee of the IRA.
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