Taxpayers filed 130.2 million U.S. individual income tax returns for Tax Year 2002, a decrease of 0.2 percent from the 130.5 million returns filed for 2001. Adjusted gross income decreased by 2.3 percent to $6.0 trillion.
Like transfers of wealth at death, wealth transfers during life—called inter vivos wealth transfers—are subject to Federal taxation. Only gifts in excess of $10,000 were potentially taxable for Gift Year 1997.
The expected total of all tax returns to be filed in Calendar Year 2004 is 226.9 million. This is projected to increase annually by 1.6 percent through CY 2010.
Split-interest trusts are, essentially, hybrid trusts having both charitable and noncharitable beneficiaries. For 2001, there were 119,821 Forms 5227, with $111.2 billion of assets and $11.7 billion of net income.