Federal Estate and Gift Tax Unified Credit: This is the amount expressed as a total amount combined for estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax exemption (the amount that is not taxed)—currently $5.45 million per person (2016)—and it is possible to use this exclusion to transfer assets by gift to another.
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