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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yes, Alexis, it’s a bit “wild,” but consider it a loosely and certainly imperfect analogous “generation skipping transfer tax”
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😉</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> on the second inheritance without an intervening sales/use tax payment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As a lifelong Washington kid, when I encountered this rule the first time, I rationalized it by figuring (1) we have no income tax or (for the most part) lifetime gift tax,
(2) titled vehicles are easy to monitor, value, and tax, (3) excise, use, and sales taxes are rigorously enforced in lieu of income tax, (4) each gift/inheritance of a titled vehicle is “robbing” the state of a sales- or use-taxed purchase of a vehicle, and
so (5) it’s easy to justify (and implement mechanically) a policy by which we all get only “one tax-free transfer” of a titled vehicle ordinarily subject to sales/use tax upon transfer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Not that any of that helps you or your client in any way at all, except to try to understand “why” legislators might choose that option. Best, Josh
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrekita Silva<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 27, 2024 12:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Inherited vehicles- sales tax exemption<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Law Office of F. Andrekita Silva
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">August 26, 2024</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Alexis,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I ordinarily have the PR transfer the title directly to the beneficiary. Since it is inherited, they do not pay sales tax.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If the beneficiary then tries to transfer it to a different beneficiary, then it is true, that second transfer will trigger sales tax.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A vehicle can only be gifted and/ or inherited ONCE. For purposes of Dept. of License, they do not distinguish between receiving a GIFT or receiving an INHERITANCE.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you do this twice in a row, the second transfer incurs a sales tax.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So, its not clear what you mean when you say that the RV was transferred to his son in 2023.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Do you mean the PR transferred the title into son's name?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If PR transferred the title into son's name in 2023, what is it that son is trying to do now?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Again, if son is trying to transfer title to a different beneficiary, that second transfer incurs an assessment of taxes.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Andrekita Silva
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Law Office of F. Andrekita Silva
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On 2024-08-26 22:09, Alexis Singletary wrote:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have a Decedent who passed in 2024 but had inherited an RV from his</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">dad in 2023 - transfer all fine to son in 2023. No sales tax due since</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">inherited. Now, Decedent’s heir ready to put the RV into his name</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">and Dept of Licensing wants about $12,000 in sales tax “because you</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">cannot transfer a vehicle without sales tax two times in a row.”
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I guess I have never experienced this in any probate and cannot seem</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">to put my hand on the cite.
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you! </span>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best, </span>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Alexis </span>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>> On Behalf Of Brent Williams-Ruth</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Subject: [WSBAPT] PPM - Transfer of Guns
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">RCW 11.12.260 - does not prohibit the use of a Personal property</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">memorandum for guns. I thought I had recall of that being discussed as</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">part of the no-no list at a CLE, but I am not finding it in my course</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">materials going back two years. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Was I making that up in my head? I also did a quick search for case</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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