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Understanding 2024 Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Exemptions

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Each year, certain estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (“GST”) tax figures are subject to inflation adjustments that go in effect on January 1. Below are the current adjustments for 2024....more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Massachusetts Estate Tax Changes

Governor Maura Healey signed a tax relief package into law on October 4, 2023, making changes to how the Massachusetts estate tax is calculated. The new law doubles the Massachusetts estate tax exemption from $1 million to...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

MA Estate Tax Update: Estate Tax Exemption Is Now $2M

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Today, Wednesday, October 4, 2023, Governor Maura Healey signed Bill H. 4104 into law, creating a Massachusetts estate tax exemption of $2,000,000....more

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MA Estate Tax Update: Senate Accepts $2M Estate Tax Exemption

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On Thursday, September 28, 2023, the Massachusetts Senate voted in favor of Bill H. 4104 to increase the Massachusetts estate tax filing threshold to $2,000,000. The Massachusetts House of Representatives approved the Bill on...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Cocktails & Estate Planning are Not Necessarily Good Mixers

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Oh, the things you hear at cocktail parties: “Everyone should have a revocable trust,” “It’s easy to change your residence to Florida for tax purposes – just count days and get a Florida license,” “Make all your trusts...more

Blank Rome LLP

2022 California Estate and Tax Planning Newsletter

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Our annual estate and tax planning newsletter discusses certain concepts and techniques that should be considered in 2022 by our clients and friends in California. Perhaps the most important recent development was the failure...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Will Massachusetts Finally Overhaul the Estate Tax?

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Estate taxes are generally thought of as a tax on the wealthy, but wealthy is a relative term. The Massachusetts Estate Tax applies to a surprisingly large portion of the middle class, not just the top 1%. The estate tax is...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

No Time Like the Present: Estate Planning Strategies for Potential Changes in 2021 and Beyond

The Estate Planning Team at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP issues advisories regularly to communicate important law changes and other matters of interest to our clients, their advisors, and our friends. The 2020 presidential...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Washington Estate Tax Benefits of Certain Family-Owned Businesses

Washington state grants estate tax relief if a decedent owns a qualified family-owned business interest (QFOBI) at the time of death and such property passes to a "qualified heir." ...more

Verrill

2020 Estate Planning Update

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SECURE ACT - What you need to know: The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act went into effect on January 1, 2020. The most significant provisions of the SECURE Act involve changes to the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2019 Year-End Private Wealth Advisory

In 2019, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) and its resulting tax reform continued to dominate the planning landscape. As outlined in our 2018 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory, the Act made significant changes to individual...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - August/September 2019: Estate Planning Pitfall - You’re setting up trusts in your home state

Generally, the logical place to establish a trust is in one’s home state. However, for a variety of reasons, that may not be the best option. One may be better off establishing the trust in a different jurisdiction. This...more

A&O Shearman

Estate Planning Advisory

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As a general rule, it is advisable to revisit your estate plan every few years, or if some major change occurs in your personal circumstances or in applicable law. Recent historic changes to the tax law warrant revisiting...more

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2018 Year-End Estate Planning Update

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Federal Transfer Taxes - The Internal Revenue Service has announced the annual inflation adjustments for the 2019 tax year... Federal unified gift and estate tax exclusion increasing to $11,400,000: As of January 1,...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Personal Planning Strategies - December 2018

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Estate, Gift and GST Tax Update - What This Means for Your Current Will, Revocable Trust and Estate Plan - The estate and gift tax regimes have been permanent and unified since the passage of The American Taxpayer...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Estate Planning Pitfall: You’re not paying enough attention to state estate tax laws

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides greater flexibility in estate planning for many taxpayers. So, no more estate tax worries for most people, right? Not so fast. For residents of some states, state estate or inheritance taxes...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Should a tax apportionment clause be in your estate plan?

Even though the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doubled the gift and estate tax exemption to $10 million beginning this year, there are many families that still have to contend with significant federal estate tax liability. Plus, there...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Charitable giving in a post-TCJA world: What you need to know in the wake of the new tax law

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will have a significant impact on estate planning and related aspects, such as charitable giving. Even though the TCJA reduces tax incentives for making charitable donations for some people,...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - August/September 2018

In This Issue: - Charitable giving in a post-TCJA world: What you need to know in the wake of the new tax law - Understanding the contents of a will - Should a tax apportionment clause be in your estate plan? - ESTATE...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Federal Estate, Gift and GST Tax Exemption Amounts Spike

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On December 22, 2017, President Trump enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, (“TCJA”) ushering in significant changes to the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax laws. Through December 31, 2017, the federal...more

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More Planning Tips for Individuals Under New Tax Act

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As Shanna Yonke mentioned in her January 22, 2018 Legal Update The New Tax Law Provides Estate Planning Opportunities, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on December 22, 2017. The Act (officially,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Dramatic Change to Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Tax Exemptions

• Each individual’s exemptions from federal estate, gift and GST taxes have roughly doubled to approximately $11,200,000 • The increased exemptions are available only temporarily, through 2025 • We recommend that you...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Impact of New US Tax Law on High Net Worth Individuals, Trusts and Family Offices

The newly enacted U.S. tax law makes significant changes to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code affecting high net worth individuals, their investment entities and family offices. These changes are likely to spur gift...more

Blank Rome LLP

Estate Planning under the New Tax Law

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This client alert is part of a special series on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and related changes to the tax code, where Blank Rome’s lawyers share their analysis of different provisions in the Act and how they may affect you...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: An Overview and Four 2018 Planning Suggestions

For the first time in more than 30 years, the countdown to the New Year was also the countdown to major revisions to the tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Act) became law in late December 2017 and contains sweeping changes...more

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