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Not errors as such - but suboptimal outcomes from a society-wide point of view, yes. Legolas Send a noteboard - 19/05/2016 06:28:50 PM

View original postI know of a few tricky things in the Code. For example, the US taxes the donor of a gift, not the recipient, because inter vivos gifts were being used to avoid the estate tax. In keeping with taxing estates, we created the Gift Tax. However, recipients don't pay income tax. In most countries, it's the other way around. Therefore, if you are a US tax person (resident or citizen, roughly, though that's not entirely correct) and your parents are non-resident aliens, they can give you, say, a gift of $10 million. They don't pay tax because in their country they're not the paying party, and you don't pay tax (assuming you're not still a citizen of that country and subject to tax, and because most countries tax on where you're located, you're probably not subject to tax there if you're living here). THAT'S sort of a loophole.

Interesting. I'll have to remember that.
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