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Sec. 2641 Applicable rate

  • Internal Revenue Code of 1986
  • SUBTITLE B -- ESTATE AND GIFT TAXES
  • Chapter 13 -- Tax on Certain Generation-skipping Transfers
  • Subchapter E -- Applicable Rate; Inclusion Ratio

(a) General rule. For purposes of this chapter, the term "applicable rate" means, with respect to any generation-skipping transfer, the product of--

(1) the maximum Federal estate tax rate, and

(2) the inclusion ratio with respect to the transfer.

(b) Maximum Federal estate tax rate. For purposes of subsection (a), the term "maximum Federal estate tax rate" means the maximum rate imposed by section 2001 on the estates of decedents dying at the time of the taxable distribution, taxable termination, or direct skip, as the case may be.

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