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Bethel Law
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The Bethel Law Corporation is an independent client-centered law firm located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Regional and national clients of all sizes look to us for exceptional legal counsel and creative advice in all aspects of estate and business planning. We’re listeners. We’re advisors. We’re hard workers. Our goal is simple: to provide you, your family, your business, or your charity with the best legal planning and drafting services available.
While our clients enjoy the advantages of having our full focus and attention, we, in turn, enjoy developing and preserving long-term client relationships. We strongly believe in a firm-wide commitment to meeting client goals. Our success, therefore, is measured in our client’s success. To this end, we are here to help grow and preserve your wealth in the most efficient manner possible.
While our clients enjoy the advantages of having our full focus and attention, we, in turn, enjoy developing and preserving long-term client relationships. We strongly believe in a firm-wide commitment to meeting client goals. Our success, therefore, is measured in our client’s success. To this end, we are here to help grow and preserve your wealth in the most efficient manner possible.
Do Trusts Need to File Tax Returns?
Attorney Andrew Bethel from Bethel Law answers a common question about trusts: Do they need to file a tax return? We explore the differences between revocable and irrevocable trusts, focusing on how these distinctions affect tax filing requirements. Learn why a revocable living trust does not require a tax return during the trustor’s lifetime but may need one after their death. We also dive into the tax obligations of irrevocable trusts, including when they are required to file based on income levels and financial activity. Stay informed about trust tax brackets for 2024 and how they impact your trust's tax obligations. If you’re setting up a trust or managing one, this video provides essential insights to help you navigate your tax responsibilities. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share this video with anyone involved in estate planning or trust administration.
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Revocable vs Irrevocable
01:18 - Revocable Living Trust
02:50 - Irrevocable Trust
06:34 - Trust Tax Brackets (2024)
07:24 - Closing the Return
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00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Revocable vs Irrevocable
01:18 - Revocable Living Trust
02:50 - Irrevocable Trust
06:34 - Trust Tax Brackets (2024)
07:24 - Closing the Return
Like us on Facebook - BethelLawCorp
Check out our website - www.bethellaw.com/
Sign up to our newsletter! - www.bethellaw.com/newsletter
*Disclaimer*
Viewing this video does not create the expectation of an Attorney-client relationship. The information from this video is for general information purposes only. Nothing should be taken as legal advice for any individual case or situation.
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Property tax is actually "rent" you pay the real owner, the government. Stop paying it and see how long the government, (landlord), sends armed personnel to force you out.....at the end of a gun if necessary.
Arizona caught a stray.
SOUNDS LIKE ITS TIME TO GET THE HELL OUT OF CALIFORNIA AND THE USA SCREW THIS
Thank you for the straightforward explanations, but I wish you would discuss risk. Example, you pass on your wealth to your beneficiaries via account designation , but your beneficiary goes into a divorce and your wealth becomes a marital asset. Can a trust, protect my beneficiary in case of a divorce.? You say the best way to pass on a 401(k) is through Spouse designation beneficiary, but many spouses have non-marital children. This would in fact pass on your wealth to your husband‘s children. How can a trust, protect a spouse from another spouses children? If you are in a transfer on death deed state your real estate will go to your transfer on death beneficiary, but how do you prevent that Real Estate from becoming a marital asset in the case of a divorce for the beneficiary?
Fuck these taxes and the government sucking off of the rest of us. It's insanity.
In law school I took a real estate transactions class, very good class! Your video feels like a mini refresher. Great video!
What if I die and my kids immediately sell my house as-is? Is it just the $250,000.00 exemption, and capital gains of the rest, or is there some property taxed owed too? This is so confusing that I don't even remember Prop. 19 on the ballot. They are so sneaky.
your shirt is too small
Don't call it "California's" scheme because it's not the scheme of Californian's, it's the scheme of leadership culture. JKA$$
Clear, concise, not wordy; thumbs up!
Thank you! 👍
They haven’t thought about the cons of AB 1482 and caps….because tenants are getting to many rights over the landlord I just had two tenants which I paid cash for keys but as a result I will no longer rent them out to anybody. Instead I let my son and daughter live there, for free I don’t care that I losing money in rent anymore it’s just too much hassle with all these new laws. I’m sure many landlords are not wanting to rent anymore Lawmakers are making things worst at the same time
Ah yes, rent control. California has played with this for years and failed everytime. It is just so typical of liberals. They do the same thing over and over expecting different results each time. Each time it just gets more expensive because fewer rentals are on the market. Most of us have rentals to make money, not lose it.
California is on governor hands and Pelosi diabólic ideas , let’s stop them , let’s stop their radical left ideas, but now if people keeps quiet every body will loose their property very soon
Prop 19 doesn't increase YOUR property taxes (they are still limited to 2% increase per year). Prop 19 (potentially) increases your CHILDRENS' property taxes.
Well if you sell it it still increases the property taxes to market value reassessment. No difference really. The gov is an asshole. They don't realize most people can't afford this shit increase every year and new buyers would 100% be turned off by the new reassessed taxes.
2% is still alot considering its assessed at MARKET VALUE of the house and if you live in any of the newer houses on the market your new tax rate can essentially go up to a thousand a year. Not much of an improvement.
This is theft by taxation. Senior citizens who live in the home they own should not be paying property taxes. Whenever politicians want to get more of our money they just say "It's for the children".. where does all of the California lottery money go? That was supposed to be for the schools too .
You can Google Trustee Hourly Fee for your County in Cali.
When taking Economics...Flat tax was always discussed.Problem...someone always thinks they're special and should get a break.And of course if they make a donation or gift to the top guy......
High property tax should be levied ONLY on investment properties, not your primary home. After all, too many investment properties had caused the housing bubble that drove many people into the streets and prevent many others from ever owning a home to live in. Also rent now exceeds 40% of people's income. Tax investment properties at point of sale and use those tax dollars to help offset housing prices for local buyers. Hey, whoever breaks it, needs to fix it!
Under this proposal, if someone makes $170,000, are they taxed at 15% for the first $168,000, or is the whole thing taxed at 30%?
@BethelLaw as an old tax guy I love your videos. It clears up some stuff I didn’t know about. But I do need to know about for my kids and grandkids as we’re getting to set up a trust. But I am getting ready to buy a parcel for a vacation property. Probably just a piece of land in the mountains we can use for vacation or maybe build a cabin someday. I wish you would do a video on the tax implications and inheritance of a second property to kids from parents. And the best way to do that. Thank you much, sir. Appreciate you from an over. Retired vet🇺🇸
Keep voting democrat😅🤣😂🤣
Dude your republicans want higher property taxes. Trump literally limited the deductions to 10k for californians.
So, you are saying the top 1% will get rewarded, while the other 99% will be paying more taxes to subsidize the wealthy...sounds like an interesting plan!
What about prop 13 with a TODD?
With a trust can you elect one child to get the house and pay the remaining siblings? I’m thinking of prop 13. If the house is transfer by a trust to multiple children and most of the children would rather receive a cash instead of keeping the property. Will the transfer be treated as a sale? Or can the child/children that keep the house keep prop 13 tax basis?
As long as America don't fight they are going to lose.
a flat % tax is good as long as all the deductions are eliminated, this is the only way that the rich will pay the same as the poor
Awesome! Zero taxes for all👍
Well ya lost me. Project 2025 is not Trumps Agenda, his is Agenda 47. So, the whole video is now moot, as Agenda 2025 isn't the tax policy being discussed in Trumps Campaign.
I'm tired of the insane amount I'm paying to LA County for a tiny condo I bought 10 years ago. It just keeps going up. Of course anyone renting their units is forced to increase rent.
Put it in a trust duh
Hi, my mother signed the deed over to me and my sister 30 years ago. The house is paid for, and I’m in New Jersey. Was this the best way to pass the deed to us, tax-wise, or is it more trouble? I wish to sell my half. Thanks
My mother passed the deed to her house to me and my sister as tenants in common 30 years ago. She lives there, I rent elsewhere. I’m retired now and I wish to sell my share. Am I free to sell my part to anyone I want? I understand the internal implications. The house is long payed for. I’m in New Jersey. Thanks. What kind of professional do I need to handle a situation like this?
Mr Bethel; Hello, new subscriber here. I appreciate the time you took to film, edit and upload the videos- Thanks!
Thanks for the sub, and thank you for your support!
Ca politicians are crooks. How can you keep the house ur grandparent bought if the taxes goes up so much.
Tell me about that double taxation of regular corps again? If corp doesn't declare dividend, how can "double taxation" occur? You don't mean Coke or McDonalds corps pay "double taxation". Maybe this isn't something you really want to get into, but you did mention it in a discussion of S and LLC.
LOL at 5 16 I suppose you address this. I know you will pardon me for laughing. Wow. How many people actually do that? Pay tax in LLC one year bc they failed to distribute earnings? Okay. Maybe. I guess. Then distribute the following year? A person smart enough to own a rental home and listen to your vids but not actually smart enough to hire help. Sure.
What you did is exactly called "Demystification!"
Thank you!
CA real estate taxes are unfair. If you buy a $2,000,000 home today in an older neighborhood your tax would be about 20,000 per year. If your neighbors have lived their since 1980’s you may be paying more taxes than 5-8 of them combined.
Per Proposition 13 the property tax rate is 1%, of the taxable value and that is state wide. You quoted .9%, that is incorrect. (Source: California State Board of Equalization, Assessment Sercices Unit, www.boe.ca.gov.) Also, as you mentioned, Proposition 19 was authored by the California Association of Realtors, NOT the state government.
Just at a time we all need relief.
I say, directly, that the 2% property Tax cap, on an annual basis, is the greatest Liberal/Commie trick ever played....Obviously, you are a big fan of this.....Let's face it, it ROBS all them that do NOT own Real Estate.....But, By Golly, you probably believe in Free Lunches.......Good Luck!
Let's say I give my mom 18 thousand. But now I want to pay for her groceries monthly throughout the year. Do groceries count towards the gift tax?
Technically, yes, those groceries would be considered a gift to your mom, and since it would be a gift above the yearly tax exemption amount, it would technically be subject to a 40% tax from you as the giver. As for how the IRS would find out about this gift...
About time everyone pays equal tax!! I pay 4K, next door pays $1100
What happens if your not a family member but your on the deed ?
Very informative - thanks - and love the painting “scream” in the background
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Control the government spending. Then, there is no need for tax hike. Why are we voting for those who just spend and spread money from helicopter?
I saw the graffiti on the walls and got out four years ago. Best thing I evet did.
Shouldn't the lawyers tell you or do something about registering or informing the county that the house is "in trust" because I have noticed that when you look up a home on a county website where the records are stored about the deeds of houses some say " in trust" ... others say LLC or something like that and others have no definition except maybe the owners names of that house that sits on a specific block and lot number.... and my question is that if they do not or are not entered into or updated with the county could that mean that the county or any other entity such as bill collectors for nursing homes can claim the right to seize the property foreclose on it with a lein on it and sell it in order to repay any outstanding debts such as the debts that can possibly be incurred from unpaid nursing home fees and bills?
Close all government schools
I take the LLC's wrote this legislation so they can steal our properties.
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
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@@lucinacatherwood My advisor is Victoria Carmen Santaella
You can look her up online
@@HudsonEthan-00 The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees that drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
What happens when a greedy Trustee forged it without the forgery proof Latin Law Model Interdiction Trust?