Once Removed Episode 19: The Step-Transaction Doctrine and the Case of Smaldino
Once Removed Episode 18: The Reciprocal Trust Doctrine
Charitable Planning With Guest Stephanie Hood: Navigating Complex Rules and Traps for the Unwary
Once Removed Episode 16: Gift and Estate Tax, Inflation Adjustments for 2024
Once Removed Episode 17: Annual Gifting to Individuals: Options, Opportunities and Pitfalls
Once Removed Episode 12: SLATs and the Case of McKim vs. McKim
Once Removed Episode 11: Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts, or SLATs
Once Removed Episode 10: Trustee Removal and Case Update on Leo Kahn Revocable Trust
(A)ESOP's Fables - The Income and Estate Tax-Free ESOP
The Renoir Spelling Bee
Taking the Sting Out of Death Taxes with Dylan Metzner, Jones & Keller
RETURN TO FOREVER - What Game Shall We Play Today?
To Give or Not to Give: Considerations for Year-End Gifting
INTRODUCING MALTA SPLIT DOLLAR
THE PAPER CHASE
With a Little Help from My Friends
The Greatest Gift: Your Individual + Family Estate Plan
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Death of a Parent- In the context of a family-owned business, it is often the case that the matriarch or patriarch of the family is also the chief executive of the business. They may have founded the business, or they may...more
Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of April 17, 2023 – April 21, 2023...more
IRS Alert: The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently issued Revenue Procedure 2022-32 which provided surviving spouses extended relief to make “portability” elections without the need for the issuance of a private letter...more
This Estate Planning Update reviews the newly-released estate tax exemption and gifting adjustments for 2023, the extended deadline to make a portability election, and simple ways that business owners and professionals can...more
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released Notice 2022-36, in which the IRS announced that it is automatically waiving (and automatically abating, refunding, or crediting, as appropriate) penalties for failure to...more
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The Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) contains over 150 civil tax penalties for various conduct and non-conduct. One common group of penalties, associated with the late filing of a tax return and the late payment of tax,...more
On August 28, the IRS announced that it would temporarily accept e-signatures on certain forms. Included among that initial list of forms was Form 8832, Entity Classification Election (commonly known as a “check-the-box”...more
On April 9, 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-23 (the “Notice”), which extends more tax deadlines to cover individuals, estates, corporations and others. The notice expands upon tax relief granted in prior IRS notices that...more
The IRS has previously postponed the due dates for income tax returns and payments and gift tax returns and payments, and has now issued Notice 2020-23, which expands deadline relief to other returns and payments. In general,...more
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The Internal Revenue Service released a Q&A on Notice 2020-18 to clarify the relief available to taxpayers during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Q&A offers important new details on the federal income tax filing and...more
In an effort to provide as much timely guidance as possible, the IRS has created a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) site to address taxpayer questions and concerns with respect to recently promulgated Notice 2020-18. The...more
Now is the time that many people think about gifting to loved ones, especially with the holidays upon us. In addition to making you, as well as the beneficiary of your gift, feel good, lifetime gifts can help reduce your...more
The IRS published Revenue Procedure 2019-44 on November 6, 2019, to set the inflation adjustments for 2020. The exclusion from federal estate will increase to $11,580,000, up from $11,400,000 in 2019....more
Seasoned trusts and estates practitioners know certain truths, such as: Stuff happens. Some estate tax disputes should not be litigated, but they are anyway. Sometimes justice is done....more
The Instructions for Form 706 released in November 2018 included new addresses; however, we felt a reminder could be useful since the filing address changed mid-year...more
Beginning this year, estate and gift tax returns have new filing locations, according to the instructions for Form 706 and Form 709. As of June 30, 2019, estate tax returns (Forms 706) filed using the United States Postal...more
Many of you have heard of the new Federal estate tax “portability” rule that allows a surviving spouse to effectively inherit any unused federal estate tax exemption of a predeceased spouse. An individual can only use the...more
In a long-awaited move, the IRS announced recently that taxpayers will now have at least two years to file an estate tax return to elect portability of a decedent’s unused estate tax exemption to the decedent’s surviving...more
On June 9, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service issued Revenue Procedure 2017-34, which is effective immediately and provides a simplified method to obtain permission for an extension of time under Reg. 301.9100-3 to file Form...more
When the IRS enacted the portability election provisions in 2011, which allowed estates of married taxpayers to pass along the unused part of their estate and gift tax exclusion amount to their surviving spouse, it remarked...more
IRS Notice 2017-12 - The Service issued FAQs in June of 2015 to let practitioners know that they were no longer routinely issuing closing letters. The Service instructed practitioners that they would now have to request...more
February Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The February § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs...more