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I think the PR will have difficulty getting information about the IRA directly from the IRA custodian (the financial institution), since the IRA now belongs to the beneficiaries. It does not belong to the PR. The beneficiaries are now the only people to whom
the custodian will release information regarding the account. But perhaps the PR can find a copy of the monthly statement for the month of death and use that statement to prepare the estate tax return without obtaining any additional information from the
custodian.
<div>Sone custodians are more lax in this department and will release information, but they really aren’t supposed to. For example, if the IRA is one of several accounts held on the date of death by the decedent in a master umbrella account, sone financial
institutions will give the PR a copy of the entire statement, without stopping to think that the PR doesn’t really own the IRA. The beneficiaries do. In Brent’s case, the financial institution disclosed the brokerage account, but not the IRA. That is exactly
how it is supposed to be done. The financial institution did it right.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Yes, part of GTE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">No, distributing it outside of probate does not remove it from the taxable estate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Personal Representative should be able to get info, though you might need to send a letter explaining this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have a probate where Decedent set up beneficiary for his brokerage and his traditional IRA. The brokerage house disclosed the brokerage distribution but did not disclose the IRA. In a conversation with Executor believe each residual beneficiary
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<p class="MsoNormal">Simply by distributing outside of probate does not remove it from the gross taxable estate, correct?<o:p></o:p></p>
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