11/12/2018
DID YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE REAL ESTATES AND YOU DIE, IT WILL BE FROZEN?
📌The cash in the bank, the real estate properties that you own, the company shares in your stock market portfolio, the mutual fund investments that you have, and all other assets under your name become frozen.
📌In other words, your loved ones cannot get or sell them, and the ownership can’t be transferred to them – well, not just yet.
📌To unfreeze the assets, the family will need to file a Notice of Death with the Bureau of Internal Revenue within two months after the date of death, and then pay the corresponding Estate Tax within six months from the decedent’s death.
📌The amount of Estate Tax to be paid is based on the value of the Net Estate; that is the present or fair market value of the asset at the time of death less applicable tax deductions, which can fortunately go as high as 3 million pesos nowadays. As a formula, it looks like this:
[Net Estate Value = Gross Estate Value – Tax Deduction]
📌Where will they get the money? They can’t get it from your assets (because it’s frozen), they have to come up with the cash on their own.
📌This is how LIFE INSURANCE becomes a tool for ESTATE PLANNING because if you have one, your family will immediately receive the cash benefits of your policy, which they can now use to pay the Estate Taxes.
📌There are other legal matters that need to be addressed when you die. Sufficient to say that you will need a lawyer, accountant or a FINANCIAL CONSULTANT to assist you if you’re not familiar with the process.
📌What’s important for you to realize now is that Estate Taxes need to be paid, so the assets and investments can be transferred to your family and heirs.
📌For the cash deposits in your bank accounts, your heirs will be able to withdraw them.
📌For real estate properties, the title or ownership will be transferred to the heirs, which will give them the right to sell it, or actually do anything they want with it because it’s now theirs.
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