step transaction doctrine
This is a tax rule that lets the IRS treat a series of separate steps as one single action if they were clearly planned together. It is relevant to strategies like the backdoor Roth because some worry the IRS could combine the steps and treat them differently.
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- Stepped up basis
Inherited assets get a new cost basis at the date of death, erasing the gain for tax.
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