Qualified Charitable Distributions

Insight on Estate Planning - February/March 2013: Fiscal cliff deal brings some certainty to estate planning

by Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. on 2/20/2013

Congress’s eleventh-hour deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” produced the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA). The act focuses on income taxes, but it also provides much-needed certainty for people engaged in estate...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

American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012: Expanded Roth Conversions and Other Benefit and Retirement Related Provisions

by King & Spalding on 2/5/2013

On January 2 , 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (H.R. 8) (the “Relief Act”) into law. While the principal intention of the Relief Act was to avert the key elements of the “fiscal cliff” by...more

High Net Worth Family Tax Report, Vol. 8, No. 1 - January 2013

by Loeb & Loeb LLP on 1/24/2013

Table of Contents: Remember to file your gift tax return and other follow-up related to 2012 gifts; Review estate plans in light of $5 million exemption becoming permanent; Annual exclusion amount for gifts increased for...more

January 31 Deadline to Transfer IRA Funds to Charities and Have It Count for 2012

by Sarah S. Butters, Richard Sills | Holland & Knight LLP on 1/24/2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "Act") extends for two more years — 2012 and 2013 — a popular provision that enables an IRA owner to make gifts to charity directly from his or her IRA account without causing the...more

Charitable Giving: Better Late than Never

by Evan Abrams, Barbara Murphy | Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 1/24/2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “Act”), signed into law by President Obama on January 2, 2013, extends favorable tax treatment for qualified charitable distributions made from IRAs (”Individual Retirement...more

Charitable Giving Under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

by Barbara E. Little | Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP on 1/18/2013

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed into law the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012” (ATRA). In this Alert, we explore the good news and the bad news that charitably minded individuals received with the passage of...more

IRS Announces Deadline to Make 2012 Charitable/IRA Rollovers

by J. Grant Coleman | King, Krebs & Jurgens, PLLC on 1/18/2013

On January 16, 2013, the IRS issued a notice (IR-2013-6) advising that certain IRA owners have a limited time to make tax-free transfers to eligible charities and have them count for 2012. IRA owners age 70½ or older have...more

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