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Tax Exemptions Generation-Skipping Transfer Goods and Services Tax

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Possible Limited Duration of Increased Wealth Transfer Tax Exemptions Strongly Encourages Immediate Action

The current tax laws, which took effect on January 1, 2018, temporarily double the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions from $5 million (adjusted annually for inflation) to $10 million (also...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Looking Ahead to 2021 with a Focus on Your Estate Plan

We are just past the midpoint of a year like no other. Many aspects of our lives have been challenged and reconfigured, with even more changes a certainty. Depending upon the outcome of the election in November, significant...more

Dickinson Wright

Automatic Allocation of GST Tax Exemption

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The Generation-Skipping Transfer (“GST”) tax is designed to prevent taxpayers from avoiding estate tax on a child’s inheritance at the child’s death by “skipping” inheritances over children to grandchildren. Each person...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Wealth Management Update - September 2017

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

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

2017 Tax Update

The current 2017 federal exemption against estate and gift taxes is $5,490,000 per person. This includes a $40,000 increase over the 2016 federal exemption based on an inflation adjustment. Such exemption may be used during...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - August/September 2016

In This Issue: - Alternate valuation date: Flexible postmortem planning a plus when markets are volatile - The write stuff: A letter of instructions - Making the most of your GST tax exemption - Estate...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Estate Tax Changes Past, Present and Future

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I. INTRODUCTION - This outline is a selective and evolving review of the history of the modern federal estate tax. It originated during the attempts to repeal the estate tax in President Clinton’s second term and...more

Lewitt Hackman

Trusts, Estates, Exemptions and Taxes

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It may be hard to believe that in 2001, the estate and gift tax exemption, also known as the unified credit, was a mere $675K. In 2016 that credit is anticipated to go up to $5.45M for single filers; potentially $10.9M...more

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