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Lifetime gifts are left out of the tentative tax base · case 05
An estate after large gifts is taxed in lower brackets than the cumulative transfers warrant.
Case contract
solve(estate, gifts, dsue): stipulated unified transfer tax in whole dollars. T is the progressive schedule 18% to 10000 rising to 40% above 1000000. The exclusion is 13610000 + dsue; the unified credit is T(exclusion). Tentative tax = T(estate + gifts). Gift credit = max(0, T(gifts) - unified credit). Tax = max(0, tentative - gift credit - unified credit), returned in integer cents.
Why this case matters
Tax computations hinge on which slice, threshold, ordering and rounding rule applies at each step; a misplaced boundary silently misstates liabilities.
One recorded failure
Sample boundary fixtureThis sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.
| Boundary fixture | Actual | Expected | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| regression gifts-in-base 1 | 0 | 228145920 | Failed |
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