Your Son as a recipient of gift will not owe any taxes. You also may not owe any Gift Tax but you will be required to file a gift tax return.

Normally a person can give up to the annual exclusion amount $12000 for 2007 to a person, every year ($ 24000 in 2007 if spouses joins in for the gift) without facing any gift taxes and note that such amounts do not count as part of your $1,000,000 lifetime total.

Further, IRS allows a person to give up to $1,000,000 in gifts, total, in their lifetime, before they start owing the gift tax. (This gift is not per (donee)person but its a per donor limit). So you can make gifts that are worth up to a million bucks during your lifetime without paying the gift tax. . Even if you do not owe a gift tax because you have not reached the $1,000,000 limit, you are still required to file gift tax return if you made a gift that does not qualify as excludable.

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