Qualified Personal Residence Trust – QPRT

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and finance Allah shmoop What is a Q Bert No

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Q P Artie What is it Qualified Personal resident's trust

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and basically it's illegal trust into which you put your

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home I eat your residents a k a The are

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there in the Cooper thing for all kinds of beneficial

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tax reasons Well people create Q parts so that they

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can transfer their homes and usually in a tax advantaged

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or low taxi kind of way to their kids Loved

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ones Or you know members of the Justice League Well

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the Golden Ticket in Q Bert is the notion of

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discounted cash flow Are discounting future value to be a

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lower number in its present value that is the value

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of the home is determined by an SS or usually

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not Zillow yet and note that the government has a

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cap or a maximum dollar value that can be transferred

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from one generation to the next without suffering Severe taxes

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like that's around 12,000,000 bucks these days So it's in

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the interest of those with assets to transfer to make

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that value appear to be as low as possible It

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should be conceivable that if the home is to be

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transferred not today but in a decade or even to

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well then that future value of that home could be

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re construed as being worth a lot less than it's

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worth today and the official legal transfer happens in a

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decade or two So it's going to transfer using up

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a lot less of that 12 ish $1,000,000 estate tax

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minimum ceiling there before you really get taxed And this

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all makes sense If you think about real estate in

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the context of well normal commercial real estate like apartment

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buildings in office buildings that is If someone gave you

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an apartment building but told you that you couldn't collect

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any rent from it for 18 years than that building

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would carry a significant value Discount today compared to what

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it would carry were given to the beneficiary this week

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because you collect 18 years worth a rent before the

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other guys begin collecting So going to Cooper the home

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is that essentially given in parts Teo say the beloved

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children of the owners and the value of the asset

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being transferred gets the benefit of what is essentially present

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value or discounted cash flow evaluations such that the government

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allows for the home to retain a flat steady UN

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inflated valuation while for tax purposes well the value of

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the home is discounted Meaningful e In the future for

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example the owners of the home might have a nice

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little pad with a market value today of well $5,000,000

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they're legally allowed to transfer up to 12,000,000 bucks to

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their kids with no estate tax If they just transferred

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the home today well they'd use up well 5/12 of

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their total tax free estate transfer option But the parents

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have other assets beyond the house They'd also like to

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transfer with no estate tax write like stocks and bonds

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and maybe some other real estate Well this is where

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the Q part comes in Trying to mitigate much of

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the $5,000,000 in assess value of the home by discounting

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its transfer value a decade and change into the future

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So let's say the transfer value was pegged at 15

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years from now The discount rate of 5% per year

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Compound ID Will the duration and years in the discount

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rate er set by a government formula based largely on

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what government bond paper is trading at in a given

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time period and the age of the parents and other

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expected structural life issues and life expectancy and a whole

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bunch of other elements get a bald in that mush

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pot of regulatory compiling So the government comes up with

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a discount rate or a number so that $5,000,000 house

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living inside of a queue pert with children still in

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grammar school doesn't need to be traded To them is

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an asset for say 15 2030 years Something like that

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Big note You must be alive for the entire vesting

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period of your Q Bert If you die well basically

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then everything reverts back to a fully taxed state and

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in some states hi California that fully tax status can

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be painful right You don't get the estate waiver discount

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minimum there So that home then well we're guessing here

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is discounted at a rate of $5,000,000 divided by one

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plus point No Five to the 15th Power right 15

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years compounded If you do the math there that's roughly

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two and change to 20.1 something like that meaning that

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the transfer price of that $5,000,000 home to the children

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then takes up well instead of 5/12 of the tax

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free transfer It takes up something closer to 2/12 of

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the tax free estate transfer rights only using up two

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of the 12,000,000 Because the discounted or present value of

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the home inside of Cuba it has gone from being

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worth $5,000,000 current market value to being $5,000,000 divided by

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roughly two and change or about two point 4,000,000 in

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future assessed estate transfer value Yes that's the fancy phrasing

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So yes there are costs in setting up a Q

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Bert But usually the benefits of the kid's vastly outweigh

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the 10 or 20 grand and change and setting one

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of these puppies up especially if the dough is on

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one of this kind of big multi $1,000,000 scale and

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the ever big benefit Well you can actually live in

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the home while you have in theory given it away

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assuming you can you know still do stairs Anyway when

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you are dealing with a homeowner who has that kind

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of cash well there's always a chance he might be 00:04:48.862 --> [endTime] this guy Yeah oh

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