The Internal Revenue Service recently announced increased transfer tax exclusions for calendar year 2024 as part of Revenue Procedure 2023-34. The significant increases in the unified credit against estate, gift and...more
Leveraging QPRTs in a High Interest Rate Environment -
A Qualified Personal Residence Trust, or “QPRT” is a planning strategy specifically authorized in the Internal Revenue Code that allows an individual to remove a...more
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused many individuals to reevaluate vacation destinations and where they choose to work. Why work in snowy Chicago during the winter months when you can perform the same work remotely in a...more
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced the federal income tax filing due date for individuals for the 2020 tax year will be extended automatically from April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021. However, this announcement did...more
NGE Private Wealth Services partner Eric Mann discusses why estate planning clients might use a grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT) to minimize taxes on large financial gifts to family members.
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On June 21, 2019, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held, in North Carolina Department of Revenue v. Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust, that the North Carolina Department of Revenue could not...more
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Currently, individual taxpayers who itemize their deductions can deduct real property taxes paid that year. Under both the House and Senate tax reform bills, the property tax deduction would be capped at $10,000. If that cap...more