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Estate Planning is a process where individuals prepare or plan for the settlement of their personal affairs in the event of incapacitation or death. Estate plans typically include provisions relating to the disposition of assets, guardianship of minor children, and appointment of representatives to make medical and financial decisions. Effective estate planning can decrease tax liability and facilitate the probate process. less -

Maximize Your Legacy: Take Advantage of the High Estate and Gift Tax Exemption Sunset

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/15/2024

As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the estate and gift tax exemption was doubled for tax years 2018-2025. In 2018, the exemption doubled from $5.49 million in 2017 to $11.18 million in 2018, and that amount has been...more

[Webinar] New IRS Guidance on Basis Adjustments for Irrevocable Grantor Trusts: Key Issues for U.S. and Non-U.S. Persons - June...

Strafford on 6/3/2024

This CLE/CPE webinar will provide estate planners insight on recently issued IRS guidance regarding basis adjustments for irrevocable grantor trusts. The panelist will discuss key items and challenges stemming from Revenue...more

Understanding the Unique Benefits of Beneficiary Intentionally Defective Irrevocable Trusts (BIDITs)

Husch Blackwell LLP on 3/7/2024

A Beneficiary Intentionally Defective Irrevocable Trust (BIDIT) provides a unique planning opportunity because it allows a beneficiary to continue to benefit from his or her own assets while maintaining some level of control...more

Irrevocable Trusts: Who Is the Taxpayer?

Blank Rome LLP on 5/3/2023

In establishing and funding an irrevocable trust, a common question is who is responsible for the income tax liabilities associated with the trust? Many individuals assume that the trust is a separate and independent...more

Grantor Trusts

Freeman Law on 3/9/2022

Under the Internal Revenue Code’s “grantor trust” rules, the grantor of a trust may be treated as the “owner” of all or part of the trust. As such, the grantor is taxed on the trust’s income and reports its deductions...more

$2.1 Trillion Reasons Why You Should Consider Estate Planning NOW

Husch Blackwell LLP on 9/21/2021

Key points •On Wednesday, September 15, The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a proposal for a $2.1 trillion tax increase. •The proposal could drastically change the gift and estate tax treatment of new...more

When to Take Advantage of a Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT)

Bowditch & Dewey on 11/24/2020

Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in 2020 each person may transfer up to $11,580,000 without incurring a gift or estate tax. This generous exemption amount will sunset at the end of 2025, which means that in 2026, the...more

Year-End Estate Planning in an Election Year

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 10/15/2020

The 2020 election is less than a month away and year-end estate planning is already underway for many. Under current law, the estate, gift and GST (generation-skipping transfer) tax exemptions for 2020 are set at $11,580,000...more

2020 Tax Planning: Benefits of GRATs

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass on 9/4/2020

Now may be an opportune time to gift assets out of your estate, particularly through an estate planning technique known as the Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (“GRAT“)—a small silver lining of the alarming pandemic and down...more

2020 Tax Planning: Techniques that May Not Exist in 2021

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass on 9/4/2020

Major tax reform discussions are ongoing in Washington and Sacramento while everyone at home is busy navigating the pandemic. Many commentators are predicting that budgetary pressures resulting from the COVID-19 stimulus...more

Is it Time to "Use it or Lose it?"

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 6/3/2020

In the wake of COVID-19, we may see significant statutory changes to the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions. Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts and other planning techniques provide...more

Estate Planning is Still Important Even with the Passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 2/15/2018

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Act) signed into law by President Trump on December 22, 2017 made sweeping changes that affect individuals, businesses, trusts and estates. This alert focuses on the impact of the Act on...more

2016 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 11/22/2016

In 2016, we continued to experience a period of relative stability in our federal transfer tax system and have been able to plan without expecting imminent significant changes to the system. Under the American Taxpayer Relief...more

Wealth Management Update - October 2016

Proskauer Rose LLP on 10/1/2016

October Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The October Section 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs,...more

Income Tax Cost Basis Planning

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 11/27/2013

Prior to the recent and significant increases in the federal estate tax exemption amount, many clients engaged in planning the purpose of which was to ensure the use of both spouses’ exemption amount through the use of a...more

Wealth Management Update Newsletter - January 2013

Proskauer Rose LLP on 1/10/2013

We Didn't (Quite) Fall off the Cliff, But We Still Have To Clean up the Mess! When the clock struck midnight on December 31, 2012, estate planning practitioners said "good night" to an unprecedented period of working...more

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