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Estate taxes, also known as inheritance or death taxes, are taxes on an individual's right to transfer property at death.
Lathrop GPM

Estate Planning 2024 Federal Tax Update

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As we start the new year, this Federal Tax Update highlights estate planning-related federal tax information that may be helpful as you consider planning options for 2024. ...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act supercharges exemption portability

Somewhat lost in the clamor of the tax changes enacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the fact that the new law preserves the “portability” provision for married couples. Portability allows an estate to elect to permit the...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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Making Use of a Deceased Spouse’s Unused Estate Tax Exemption Simplified

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The election for married couples to elect portability of the Federal Estate Tax Exemption was introduced in late 2010 when the Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act (“TRUIRJCA”) was signed...more

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Personal Planning Strategies - December 2016

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2017 Estate, Gift and GST Tax Update: What This Means for Your Current Will, Revocable Trust and Estate Plan - As we previously reported, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "Act") made the following permanent:...more

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New 252 Percent Estate Tax Bracket and Other Tax Changes Affect Wealthy New Yorkers

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The revenue portion of the recently passed Executive Budget for 2014–2015 significantly changes New York’s estate tax and the way in which New York taxes the income of certain trusts. ...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - Year End 2013: Can portability help preserve retirement benefits?

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) made the estate tax exemption “portability” feature permanent. This allows a surviving spouse to take advantage of a deceased spouse’s unused federal gift and estate tax...more

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Should We Rely On Portability?

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When Congress early this year enacted the new estate tax provisions making the $5 million inflation adjusted federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions "permanent," it also made the concept of...more

Snell & Wilmer

The "Permanent" Relief Act

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On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (“ATRA”), setting the unified Federal gift and estate tax exemption at $5 million, indexed for inflation ($5.25 million for 2013, expected to...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Estate Planning Opportunities Arising from Recent Landmark Supreme Court Decisions Concerning Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

On June 26, 2013, the US Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court”) struck down Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional in the case of United States v. Windsor (“Windsor”). In a related case, the...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Transfer Taxes After The Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “2012 Act”) had a profound impact on the transfer tax system. I will briefly describe that system and then, by way of background, set the stage for these changes by summarizing...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Estate Planning After the American Taxpayer Relief Act

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Congress adopted the American Taxpayer Relief Act (the Act), effective January 1, 2013. The Act made permanent tax rates and exemptions for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) taxes. Prior laws incorporated...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Alert: Estate Planning - January 2013

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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

McCarter & English, LLP

2013 Estate Planning Update

As 2012 drew to a close, your estate planning attorney's attention was diverted from the ball drop in Times Square to whether Congress would drop the ball with respect to the fiscal cliff. Congress, however, passed the...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

FINALLY…Clarity And Good News On Estate And Gift Taxes

It has often been said that the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Until two weeks ago, the “taxes” part of that phrase was not so certain. However, on January 2, 2013 President Obama signed the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

On New Year’s Day 2013, to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (“2012 Act”). The 2012 Act raises taxes on some taxpayers while retaining most of the provisions enacted...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Recent tax law changes of 2013

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law. Summarized below are highlights of those and other changes to Federal tax laws affecting income, payroll, gift and estate, and...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Estate Planning Implications of the Fiscal Cliff Deal

After a last-minute deal to avoid the fiscal cliff was passed by Congress on January 1, 2013, President Obama signed into law the new American Taxpayer Relief Act (“ATRA 2012”) on January 2, 2013. ATRA 2012 extends...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Significant Estate Planning Developments in 2013

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The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (Act) was enacted on January 2, 2013....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Wealth Management Update Newsletter - January 2013

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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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The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 Stabilizes Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-skipping Transfer Tax Law

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The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "2012 Act") — actually passed by Congress on January 1, 2013 — brings welcome stability to federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax law which has been in...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Ringing in the New Year with Revised Estate and Gift Tax Laws

Congress has averted the so-called fiscal cliff by passing the "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012" (the "Act") on January 1, 2013, which President Obama signed into law the following day. The good news is we finally have...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Fiscal cliff avoided — what it means for you

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While most of us were celebrating the new year, members of the U.S. House and Senate were trying to prevent a fall over the dreaded "fiscal cliff," the combination of automatic tax increases and automatic reductions in...more

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The Permanent (For Now) Fiscal Cliff Compromise of 2012

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In dramatic fashion, Congress adopted its New Year’s tax resolutions just in time to save us from falling off the cliff. The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) passed the Senate in the wee hours of New Year’s...more

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