Estate tax exemption headroom, 2024

This works out one number from the Estate Tax Exemption figures published for 2024. Every amount it uses is below, with the document it was read from. What you enter is your own: this site has no way to check it, and the answer it produces is not a published figure.

Basic exclusion amount$13,610,000

Effective 2024-01-01Source: Rev. Proc. 2023-34 (IRS)Verified 2026-08-29

How it is worked out

The published amount less the amount you enter, rounded to the nearest cent. Where what you enter is the larger of the two, the answer is nothing rather than a negative amount.

It uses Basic exclusion amount, $13,610,000, the only one this year publishes.

Figures in this colour are computed from the amounts above. They are not published figures and no document states them.

Work it out

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Worked out for common amounts

Lifetime gifts already reportedResult
0$13,610,000
1,000,000$12,610,000
5,000,000$8,610,000
10,000,000$3,610,000
How each figure was verified

Each number below was read from a stored copy of the document named beside it, and checked to occur word for word in the quoted sentence. The digest is of that stored text.

Rev. Proc. 2023-34 (IRS)

Basic exclusion amount
.41 Unified Credit Against Estate Tax. For an estate of any decedent dying in calendar year 2024, the basic exclusion amount is $13,610,000 for determining the amount of the unified credit against estate tax under ยง 2010.
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