U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 25, 2024
§ 102.
Gifts and inheritances
(a)
General rule
(b)
Income
Subsection (a) shall not exclude from gross income—
(1)
the income from any property referred to in subsection (a); or
(2)
where the gift, bequest, devise, or inheritance is of income from property, the amount of such income.
Where, under the terms of the gift, bequest, devise, or inheritance, the payment, crediting, or distribution thereof is to be made at intervals, then, to the extent that it is paid or credited or to be distributed out of income from property, it shall be treated for purposes of paragraph (2) as a gift, bequest, devise, or inheritance of income from property. Any amount included in the gross income of a beneficiary under subchapter J shall be treated for purposes of paragraph (2) as a gift, bequest, devise, or inheritance of income from property.
(c)
Employee gifts
(1)
In general
(2)
Cross references
(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 28; Pub. L. 99–514, title I, § 122(b), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2110.)
cite as: 26 USC 102