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Financial Planner. Iâm often asked if someone can take an income tax deduction for money they gift to their children. Gifts to individuals are not tax deductible. Tax deductions can only be taken for gifts to organizations on the IRS list of approved charities. However, there is a way to get a partial deduction for money that will eventually go to your children. A charitable lead annuity trust (CLAT) gifts money to a charity first, and then passes assets to your beneficiaries.
A gift of a future interest doesn't qualify for the unlimited marital deduction, the $14,000 annual exclusion from gift taxes for gifts made to non-spouses, or the $148,000 annual exclusion from gifts taxes for gifts made to non-citizen spouses. In other words, it's always taxable.