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| Protection from what? Estate tax? Yes it protects from estate tax by getting assets out of the estate. But when the land goes into the trust it retains the basis of the owner at the time of transfer. So you loose any chance of step up in value at death. So you just kick the captl gains tax down the road to the beneficiary of the trust.
So it would work better for recently aquired land as it would have a higher basis.
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Land trust
