Submitted By: Lillian
Answered: January 29, 2016 12:02 pm

Can a grandson make a gift to a grandmother?

Yes. While it’s not the usual situation that someone in a younger generation gives gifts to someone in the older generation, there’s no tax rule barring this. In fact, under tax law there’s no bar to gifts being made by minors.

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Tax Glossary

Accelerated depreciation

Depreciation methods that allow faster write-offs than straight-line rates in the earlier periods of the useful life of an asset. For example, in the first few years of recovery, MACRS allows a 200% double declining balance write-off, twice the straight-line rate.

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