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can be used to increase the basis of the property in the recipient’s hands. I won’t go into the rules for calculating the how much of the gift tax is added to the basis, it’s rather complicated. But increasing the basis does have the effect of decreasing the amount of taxable income the one you give it to will have when they sell the property.
