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Brooks Pierce

Changing Laws Present Unique Estate Planning Opportunities for Married Couples

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Today’s federal estate and gift tax laws may be remembered as the most generous to wealthy families since the Great Depression. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) doubled the federal estate, gift, and generation skipping...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

[Event] Vines and Legacies: Secure Your Future Today - September 24th, St. Helena, CA

Thoughtful planning and careful implementation are essential to a successful estate plan that preserves wealth in the most tax-efficient manner and fulfills a family’s personal objectives....more

Roetzel & Andress

Now That We’ve Seen the Eclipse, It’s Time To Plan for the TCJA Sunset

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As the ball drops in Times Square on December 31, 2024, many of the tax breaks established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 will disappear. While the TCJA made some permanent tax cuts, a number of tax cuts and...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

U.S.-Based Statutory Foundations: the Best of a Trust and a Non-Trust?

A trust structure, commonly used for estate planning, can be problematic in certain civil law jurisdictions, such as those in many European countries. Recent acts enacted in Wyoming and New Hampshire allow for the...more

ArentFox Schiff

The Nonprofit Sector Need Not Apply: The Corporate Transparency Act and its Tax-Exempt Organization Exemptions

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ArentFox Schiff’s clients report being inundated with notices from registered agents and other service providers to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a new law that will require many existing and newly formed...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

Dechert LLP

Use It or (Potentially) Lose It: Inflation Hikes Provide Unprecedented Estate Planning Opportunities

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There are more estate planning opportunities as a result of inflation-adjusted figures recently released by the IRS. The gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer (“GST”) tax exemption amounts are each increasing to...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Besides Saving Estate Taxes, What Should Be on Your Estate Planning Checklist?

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The federal estate tax exemption provisions are set to expire at the end of 2025, potentially requiring more people to pay estate taxes. In view of the uncertainty of the estate tax laws, it is important to have estate...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Proposed Federal Tax Law Changes Affecting Estate Planning

The House Ways and Means Committee recently released its plan to pay for President Biden's proposed Build Back Better Act. Many of the changes to the Internal Revenue Code proposed by that plan would directly impact gift and...more

Foster Garvey PC

House of Representatives 5376: Current Tax Legislation Pending in the U.S. House of Representatives

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...The federal tax laws are certainly about to change. With the need to raise revenue as a top priority for the Biden Administration, everyone is expecting dramatic changes to the Internal Revenue Code. Tax legislation is...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup September 27 – October 1, 2021

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of September 27, 2021 – October 1, 2021... September 28, 2021: The IRS released a revenue...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Impact of House Ways and Means Tax Proposals for Trusts, Estates, and Retirement Accounts

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In this second blog post on the House Ways and Means Tax proposals, we address the proposed changes that will affect the taxation of trusts, estates, and retirement plans. As we discussed, on September 13, 2021, the...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Three Estate Planning Proposals to Watch

House Democrats recently released additional legislative proposals that, if passed, would affect several commonly used estate planning techniques. Among those proposals are three that would significantly impact some of the...more

Perkins Coie

Washington’s New 7% Capital Gains Tax Questions Answered

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The Washington Legislature passed Senate Bill 5096 on April 25, 2021, the last day of the 2021 Washington legislative session. SB 5096 is a state capital gains tax on individual residents of the State of Washington. The state...more

Cole Schotz

Gift Planning In 2021

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Trust and estate planners are still catching their breath from the 2020 year-end and dealing with the wave of gifting transactions that many clients completed. It seems the ink is not dry on those December transactions and...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Estate Tax Planning for Large Company Stock Holdings: Four Tips for Using Record-High Lifetime Exemptions

- Annual inflation-indexing continues to increase the historically high lifetime exemption amount for gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Those of considerable wealth who have not yet made gifts, such as...more

Ruder Ware

Peter, Paul, and Mary Should Make Large Gifts – Now!

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Peter, Paul, and Mary have done well for themselves. Each has a nice home, a seasonal residence, and a large IRA. Coincidentally, each also has an additional $11 million worth of real estate, savings, brokerage accounts, and...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The Estate Planner - July/August 2020

Don’t overlook foreign assets when planning your estate - You’d be surprised how often people fail to disclose foreign assets to their estate planning advisors. They assume that these assets aren’t relevant to their “U.S.”...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The Estate Planner - January/February 2020

Now or later - When’s the right time to transfer your wealth? - To gift or not to gift? It’s a deceptively complex question. The temporary doubling of the gift and estate tax exemption — to an inflation-adjusted...more

Dickinson Wright

Tax Tip: Generation-Skipping Transfer Trusts

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Generation-Skipping Transfer (GST) trusts have long been a popular estate tax planning tool used to defer transfer tax to a future generation. While the estate tax exemption is at a historical high, the GST tax exempt status...more

Genova Burns LLC

Joint Committee on Taxation’s “Blue Book” Presents Potential Opportunities for GST Non-Exempt Trusts

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Late last year, the Joint Committee on Taxation published what is colloquially known as the “Blue Book” – the Committee’s explanation of recent changes in the tax law. While not considered as part of the law’s legislative...more

Burr & Forman

Tax Reform and Estate Planning: How the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Impacts Estate Plans for McNair Clients

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When the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed, significant changes were made to the Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, the most prominent of which is the increased applicable exclusion amount, which...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Maine Legislature Passes Tax Conformity Legislation - Now Awaits Governor’s Signature

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In a special session, the Maine legislature passed tax conformity legislation on August 30, 2018, after having failed to pass this legislation prior to its spring adjournment. The legislation is now on the Governor’s desk...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Estate Planning Pitfall - You haven’t transferred ownership of a life insurance policy to a trust

After recent tax legislation, including the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, few tax shelters are left standing. One key exception is life insurance. This brief article details that, if certain requirements are met, the buildup of...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

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