Estate Tax, Generation-Skipping Transfer

Obama Revenue Raising Proposals

by Vance E. Antonacci | McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 5/13/2013

The Obama Administration recently released its budget proposal for the federal government’s upcoming fiscal year of October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014. The budget proposal contains a variety of changes to the tax laws...more

ATRA 2012 – How Does it Affect You?

by Vance E. Antonacci | McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 5/9/2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “Act”) was signed into law on January 1, 2013. Among other things, the Act amended the federal estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer tax laws. The amendments of the Act...more

Mcnees Insights - Asset Planning and Federal Taxation - Spring 2013

by Vance E. Antonacci, Scott Alan Mitchell | McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 5/8/2013

In This Issue: ATRA 2012 – How Does it Affect You?; Planning and Paying for Long-Term Care; and Obama Revenue Raising Proposals. Excerpt from ATRA 2012 – How Does it Affect You?: The American Taxpayer...more

The New Federal Estate Tax Laws – Permanent?

by Lawrence Hunt, David Raymon | Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP on 4/26/2013

In January, the President signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which among other things, permanently raised the federal estate, gift and generation skipping transfer tax exemptions to $5,000,000, indexed for...more

‘Accidental’ Americans Still Owe Income Tax

by Michele Bowman | Lawyers.com on 4/15/2013

Most people who are born in the United States or who purposely become citizens here know they are U.S. citizens. But many people who’ve spent their lives abroad and are citizens of other countries may be shocked to learn that...more

Maximizing The Value Of Your Business For Your Heirs

by Pepper Hamilton LLP on 4/8/2013

One of the most difficult issues facing the owner of any successful business is how the business, or the personal wealth that it represents, can be preserved for the benefit of his or her family after death. While it is...more

Estate Planning Insight: Estate Planning After The American Taxpayer Relief Act Of 2012

by Margaret Cronin, Eileen Day | Leonard, Street and Deinard on 3/15/2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) was signed into law on January 2, 2013, ending twelve years of uncertainty concerning the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping tax rates and exemptions....more

Estate, Gift, and GST Taxes in 2013: American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 and Other News (Oregon)

by Michele Buck-Romero, Patrick Green, Amelia Heath | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/1/2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “Act”) was signed into law on Jan. 2, 2013, avoiding dramatic changes to tax exemptions and tax rates on transfers subject to federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping...more

Estate Planning Implications of American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

by Deanna Lyon, Virginia Palmer, Judith Yang | Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP on 2/27/2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act (the Act), which was passed by Congress on January 1, 2013 and signed into law by President Obama on January 2, has finally provided some permanence to the transfer tax laws....more

Auto Notes -- February 2013

by Michael R. Kelley, Elizabeth Mullaugh | McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 2/11/2013

In This Issue: "Insuring Your Dealership: Do I Really Need Garage Liability and Garagekeeper's Insurance?" and "The American Taxpayer Relief Act"...more

Estate Planning After the American Taxpayer Relief Act

by Craig Dalton | Poyner Spruill LLP on 2/11/2013

Congress adopted the American Taxpayer Relief Act (the Act), effective January 1, 2013. The Act made permanent tax rates and exemptions for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) taxes. Prior laws incorporated...more

Federal Estate Tax Laws Allow Planning Opportunities - Finally!

by Deborah DiNardo, Lawrence Hunt | Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP on 2/6/2013

For over a decade, the federal estate tax law has changed from year to year. The rates have risen and fallen. The federal estate tax exemption went from $650,000 to $1,000,000. Then it increased to $1,500,000, then...more

Estate, Gift, and GST Taxes in 2013: American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 and Other News

by Michele Buck-Romero, David Callahan, James Flaggert, Patrick Green, Amelia Heath, Richard Klobucher, Douglas Lloyd, G. Matthew Loftin, Malcolm Moore, Dana Reid | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/5/2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “Act”) was signed into law on Jan. 2, 2013, avoiding dramatic changes to tax exemptions and tax rates on transfers subject to federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping...more

Alert: Estate Planning - January 2013

by Pullman & Comley, LLC on 2/5/2013

For the first time in more than a decade, clients and advisors can plan their estates with a significant degree of certainty. The new tax law passed by Congress on January 1, 2013 and signed into law by President Obama...more

2013 Estate Planning Update

by Laura Kelly, John Lombard, David Ludgin, Dana Mark | McCarter & English, LLP on 1/30/2013

As 2012 drew to a close, your estate planning attorney's attention was diverted from the ball drop in Times Square to whether Congress would drop the ball with respect to the fiscal cliff. Congress, however, passed the...more

Make a New Year’s Resolution to Review Your Estate Plan in 2013

by Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP on 1/29/2013

Each year, at this time, we remind our clients of the importance of keeping their estate planning documents up to date. With the avoidance of the tax side of the “Fiscal Cliff” and the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief...more

Highlights of the Individual Tax Provisions in the New Taxpayer Relief Act

by Thomas Wechter | Duane Morris LLP on 1/24/2013

Originally published in the AICPA Tax Insider on January 17, 2013. After months of senseless haggling, the Senate early in the morning of Jan. 1, 2013, by a vote of 89–8, and the House of Representatives late in the...more

What the “Fiscal Cliff” Resolution Means for Personal Estate Planning

by Dechert LLP on 1/24/2013

For the first time in 12 years, the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax law does not have a built-in expiration date in the United States. Congress has exempted all estates below approximately $5 million ($10...more

FINALLY…Clarity And Good News On Estate And Gift Taxes

by Stuart Kohn, Robert Romanoff, Sheri Warsh, Robert Wertheimer | Levenfeld Pearlstein on 1/23/2013

It has often been said that the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Until two weeks ago, the “taxes” part of that phrase was not so certain. However, on January 2, 2013 President Obama signed the...more

Effects of the New US Tax Law on Estate Planning

by Michael E. Kavoukjian, Cecily P. Maguire, John M. Olivieri, Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr. | White & Case LLP on 1/21/2013

On January 3, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law. As a result, for the first time in over 12 years, there is now some certainty in the Federal estate tax, the Federal gift tax and...more

American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

by Melinda Barker, Elizabeth Fry, Ellen Harrison, Jennifer Jordan McCall, Kim Schoknecht | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/17/2013

On New Year’s Day 2013, to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (“2012 Act”). The 2012 Act raises taxes on some taxpayers while retaining most of the provisions enacted...more

Estate Planning After the Fiscal Cliff Deal

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 1/17/2013

Now that a deal averting the fiscal cliff has finally been reached, many of the tax and planning issues that have been mired in uncertainty for the past two years (and even longer in some cases) may be resolved. Numerous tax...more

2013 Brings Estate, Gift & GST Tax “Permanency” At Last

by Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP on 1/16/2013

The uncertainty of the last two years was put to rest on January 2, 2013 when President Obama signed into law the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012” (ATRA). The new law saved us from the “Fiscal Cliff” and forestalled...more

Recent tax law changes of 2013

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/15/2013

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law. Summarized below are highlights of those and other changes to Federal tax laws affecting income, payroll, gift and estate, and...more

How Will the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 Affect You - Details of Legislation passed by Congress to Avoid Fiscal Cliff

by Robert Howell, Westray Veasey | Poyner Spruill LLP on 1/15/2013

On January 2, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, H.R. 8 (ATRA), preserving many of the key tax provisions passed during the George W. Bush presidency, which were scheduled to...more

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