Answer: Equity financing
Explanation:
When using Equity financing, the owners of the business are investing either their personal assets into the company or selling shares in the company and raising money from that.
Equity financing gives the person who invested an ownership portion in the company. The main difference between equity financing and leveraged financing is that with equity financing, you are not forced to make payments to the investors every period.
I do believe that gifts to a spouse are exempt from any gift tax. So $0 is taxable.
