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The Sunset of the Doubled Estate, Gift, and GST Tax Exclusion Amounts After December 31, 2025

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The TCJA doubled the lifetime exclusion and GST tax exemption. This exclusion amount, adjusted for inflation, is now $13.61 million and is expected to be approximately $13.99 million in 2025. However, in 2026, the amount will...more

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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

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Legal-Ease: What Happens When You Are Sole Beneficiary of a Trust?

Dear Jonathan: My mother, who recently passed away, prepared a trust naming me as her sole beneficiary. She intentionally disinherited my brother due to a falling out they had years ago. Although he knows that he has been...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Estate Tax “Cinderella” Story: Millions Of Dollars Disappearing At The Stroke Of Midnight On January 1, 2026!

The classic children’s tale of Cinderella has the magic spell that transformed Cinderella expiring at the stroke of midnight after the ball. Her magnificent coach turned back into a pumpkin, inspiring a commonly used phrase....more

Brooks Pierce

Planning for the Sunset of the Gift and Estate Tax Exemption

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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

Venable LLP

“Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” - Plan Ahead for the Sunset of Federal Estate and Gift Tax Exemptions at the End of 2025

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) enacted significant changes in the federal estate and gift tax laws commencing in 2018. One of the most notable changes was that the TCJA doubled the federal lifetime gift tax...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Have grandkids? Opening 529 Plan Accounts Can Benefit Them and Your Estate Plan

The cycle continues: Your adult children — one of the first generations to benefit from Section 529 plans — are saving for their kids’ college educations through 529 accounts of their own. Did you know that parents aren’t the...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Sunset and Cloudy Skies on Horizon for Federal Estate Taxation

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Estate planning and wealth transfer professionals have their eyes on the sky as the future of federal estate taxation grows increasingly nebulous. Background - The federal gift and estate tax exemption is the amount...more

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC

Avoid the Estate Planning Exemption Cliff: Plan to Take Advantage of the Current Exemption Before it Expires

In an effort to provide Americans with various forms of tax relief, in 2017 Congress enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Tax Act”). This act provided tax reductions in many different categories, but one of the most...more

Holland & Knight LLP

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

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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

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Tennessee Trust Bill Takes Effect and Makes Important Changes to the State's Trust Laws

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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee approved Public Chapter No. 695 on April 11, 2024, as passed by the Tennessee General Assembly (Trust Bill). The new law became effective on July 1, 2024, and it made several important changes to...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The Estate Planner, July/August 2024

Employee stock ownership plan - A versatile business exit and estate planning tool - If you own a closely held business, a significant portion of your wealth may be tied up in it. So, to prepare for retirement and...more

Harris Beach PLLC

New York’s Transfer-on-Death Deeds May Not Be Your Answer

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New York’s Transfer-on-Death Deed Law is set to take effect on July 19, 2024. The new law allows New York residents to designate a beneficiary to automatically inherit their real property upon their death, similar to...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Tax Changes Coming in 2025 Affecting Farmers and Agribusiness Clients

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions are set to sunset at the end of calendar year 2025. With this sunset on the horizon, those involved in the farming and agribusiness industries may want to take note and adjust their...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Death and Taxes…and Planning Opportunities

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Financial markets, political moods, and the world-at-large can take us on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs.  But savvy investors (and their estate planning counsel) know that – in the end – neither the bears nor bulls...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

To Gift, or not to Gift: Income Taxes vs. Estate Taxes

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Giving assets away during lifetime to reduce estate taxes due upon your death is not the “no-brainer” it used to be. Sometimes, holding onto assets until your death lowers total taxes. Income tax, gift tax and estate tax...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Understanding the 2026 Changes to the Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Tax Exemptions

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 provided major changes to the Internal Revenue Code, specifically doubling the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemption (collectively, the exemption) from...more

Blank Rome LLP

Making Sense of New York’s Estate Tax “Cliff”

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In addition to the federal estate tax, which may be levied upon a decedent’s estate, New York imposes a separate state estate tax regime. Generally a decedent’s estate is subject to the New York State estate tax if such...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Wealth Management Update - June 2024

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June 2024 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split-Interest Charitable Trusts - The June Section 7520 rate for use in estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs...more

Lewis Roca

Supreme Court Decision in Connelly v. United States

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On June 6, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in in Connelly, As Executor of the Estate of Connelly v. United States, (602 US ________). The decision involves the application of the federal estate tax...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Bringing Back the Bypass Trust

According to some people, the bypass trust (sometimes referred to as a credit shelter trust) has gone the way of the dodo bird in the current estate tax environment. However, this “dinosaur” of a technique for married couples...more

Strafford

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

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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

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Seize the Moment: Maximizing Your Estate Planning Before 2026

In a significant legislative shift, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 doubled the exemption amounts for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (collectively known as “Death Taxes”). As of 2024, the federal...more

Blank Rome LLP

Estate Planning for the Business Owner Series, Part 3: Examples of Business Transfers and Valuations

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The purpose of this post, part three of our “Estate Planning for the Business Owner” series, is to provide a sample using real numbers showing the impact and benefit of using closely held business interests in lifetime...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

Estate Planning for Business Owners

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What are some of the fundamental issues when estate planning for business owners? Why should every business owner have an estate plan? What are some of the primary issues to address in an effective estate plan for those who...more

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