What Happens When the Owner of the S corporation Passes Away
You may own an S corporation with a rental property as its sole asset.
A common concern with this approach is what happens when the owner passes away, specifically regarding the step-up in basis.
Here’s good news. While technically the rental property itself doesn’t receive a step-up in basis upon your death, your heirs will achieve the same outcome. It works like this:
- Your heirs inherit the S corporation stock at its stepped-up fair market value.
- When the S corporation sells the rental property, it recognizes a gain.
- The gain on the rental property increases your heirs’ basis in the S corporation stock.
- Upon liquidation of the S corporation, your heirs recognize a capital loss that offsets the earlier gain.
The result is that your heirs can potentially sell the property without incurring any federal income tax liability, effectively achieving the same outcome as they would with a traditional rental property basis step-up.
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