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20 November 2025

Andersen Managing Director Daniel Gespass’s article Timing of Taxable Distributions for Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax is featured in Tax Notes. In the article, Daniel argues that recognizing the act of making a distribution as the triggering event for the imposition of generation skipping transfer tax (GSTT) ensures consistency with the broader framework of transfer taxation, which turns on the transfer of dominion and control rather than mere entitlement.