Absorption costing, which is also known as full absorption costing or full costing, is a method for accumulating fixed and variable costs associated with the production process and apportioning them to individual products.Thus, a product must absorb a broad range of costs.The key costs assigned to products are:bsorption costing, which is also known as full absorption costing or full costing, is a method for accumulating fixed and variable costs associated with the production process and apportioning them to individual products. Thus, a product must absorb a broad range of costs. The key costs assigned to products are:
The Annual Gift Tax Exclusion. The annual gift tax exclusion was indexed for inflation as part of the Tax Relief Act of 1997, so the amount increased in subsequent years to keep pace with the economy. Below is a chart that shows the increases in the annual exclusion from 1997 through 2015.
The way this interacts with the one million dollar lifetime gift tax exclusion is that, on the Estate Tax Return (706), the total amount of the lifetime gifts used during the person's lifetime is added back to the gross estate's value. The net effect is basically to reduce the tax free exclusion from the estate tax.