Podbit · The Ramsey Show
When you inherit a capital asset — stock, farm, real estate — your tax basis steps up to the market value at the time of death. Sell it shortly after inheriting and you could owe zero capital gains. The IRS resets the clock when you receive the inheritance.
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Jordan from Houston earns $140,000 a year and is troubled by a $4,000 debt to his in-laws — the overage from his wedding, which his wife agreed to repay without informing him. The in-laws have been discussing it with her but not with him, creating an awkward triangle. Dr. John Delony's immediate instinct is pragmatic: it was a handshake deal between the wife and her parents, write the check and stop the mental drain. Dave agrees but adds a firm principle: any money arrangement involving family must include both spouses from the start. He shares that with his own daughters' weddings, he laid out the budget in advance and made clear that any overages came from the couple, not from him — but he made sure the husbands were in the room when that was said. Dave is pointedly critical of the in-laws for not including Jordan in the original conversation, and even more critical of the wife for not disclosing it. The episode's broader theme of emotions driving financial dysfunction surfaces here in a family-dynamics flavor.
When you inherit a capital asset like a farm or stock, your tax basis steps up to market value at the time of death — meaning you could owe zero capital gains tax if you sell shortly after inheriting.
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