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High Net-Worth Internal Revenue Service Tax Reform

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Another Attack on Private Placement Life Insurance

The use of private placement life insurance (PPLI) by high-net-worth individuals has generated considerable controversy over the years, with proponents arguing that it is a proper use of existing laws that provide many of the...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Use It or Lose It: Federal Gift and Estate Tax Exemption Set to Sunset at the End of 2025

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 nearly doubled the federal lifetime gift and estate tax exemption. In 2024, this act currently allows individuals to transfer up to $13.61 million per person and $27.22 million per...more

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IRS Announces New Initiatives to Restore Fairness to Tax System

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On September 8, 2023, the IRS announced the start of a “sweeping, historic effort to restore fairness in tax compliance by shifting more attention onto high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations and promotors...more

Polsinelli

IRS Says: New Goal is to Restore Fairness by Using Tax Dollars to Audit More Millionaires, Partnerships and Large Corporations

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Following our initial reaction to the Internal Revenue Service's strategic operating plan to spend $80B in funding allocated from the Inflation Reduction Act, Polsinelli’s Tax attorneys continue to monitor the IRS’ compliance...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The States Come Marching In: Investors Ignore State Wealth Taxes at Their Peril

As President Biden reminded taxpayers in his recent State of the Union address, the federal government continues to pursue new taxes on high-net-worth individuals. While such efforts have foundered in Congress, causing many...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Wyden’s Billionaires Tax

On October 27, 2021, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released draft legislation that would, if enacted, tax the roughly 700 wealthiest Americans on a modified mark-to-market basis by requiring them to pay...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

Akerman LLP

Draft Legislation in U.S. House of Representatives Would Dramatically Alter Estate Planning Strategies

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On September 10, 2021, the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means released a draft of proposed legislation that, if enacted into law, would reduce the estate tax exemption and significantly limit the effectiveness of certain...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

AFP: $80 Billion to Audit Businesses and Wealthy in Biden Plan

On April 28, 2021, President Biden presented the “American Families Plan” (AFP), an ambitious spending program focused on providing family leave, child care and nutrition, health care, preschool and college education to...more

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