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Rivkin Radler LLP

The President’s 2024 Federal Budget: “Reforming” the Taxation of High-Income Taxpayers

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The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 established the requirement that the President submit a budget to Congress for the upcoming fiscal year. Among other things, the proposed federal budget affords the President an...more

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Gifts, Sales and Effective Dates: The Race Against the Clock the Taxpayer Cannot See

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It was quite a week, wasn’t it?- Manchin- Senator Manchin continued to attract a lot of attention. To the dismay of his fellow Democrats, the West Virginian – who also chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Let the Estate Tax Planning Games Begin - But Where Will They Land - the House Ways and Committee Has Spoken

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“President Biden and Democrats in the Congress have been working on a $3.5 trillion spending and tax package, and the details are starting to be revealed. Indeed, on Sunday, September 12th, the House Ways and Means Committee...more

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Wealth Planning and the New Administration: Potential Individual Income & Transfer Tax Changes

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On April 28, 2021, in an address to a Joint Session of Congress and a Fact Sheet published by the White House, President Biden introduced the “American Families Plan,” the President’s plan for spending and a series of tax...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

The Election, The Democrats’ Tax Proposals, And Year-End Tax Planning: Caught Between Scylla And Charybdis

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What a Week- There is no denying that last week’s political events were historic; one can only hope they were aberrational. The week began with the Sunday New York Times publishing a story in which it claimed to have...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

2020 Tax Planning: Benefits of GRATs

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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

How the New Tax Law May Impact Your Estate Plan

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “2017 Act”) which, among other items, made several changes to the federal wealth transfer tax system with respect to transfers occurring...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Trust and Estate Planning 2017 Year End Update

As we approach the end of the year, we thought you would find it useful to have the following summary of recent developments and updates that may affect your trust and estate planning....more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2017 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

The fourth quarter of 2017 concludes a unique year in the planning arena. With the new administration and a Republican-led Congress in power, both taxpayers and tax professionals have kept a close eye on the potential for tax...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2016 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

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

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2013 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

In this issue - - Federal Estate, GST and Gift Tax Rates - Annual Gift Tax Exclusion - Federal Income Tax Rates - President’s Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2014 - Important Planning...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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Estate Planning & Federal Tax Update - Winter 2013

With the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “ATRA ”) passed and the fiscal cliff safely averted, the time has come to turn your attention to your estate plan. What Did the ATRA Accomplish? The fiscal cliff...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Estate Planning After the Fiscal Cliff Deal

Now that a deal averting the fiscal cliff has finally been reached, many of the tax and planning issues that have been mired in uncertainty for the past two years (and even longer in some cases) may be resolved. Numerous tax...more

Cole Schotz

After the Fiscal Cliff — A Summary of the New Federal Gift and Estate Tax Law

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Congress took the fiscal cliff negotiations over the brink but was finally able to reach a deal resulting in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (“2012 Act”). The 2012 Act makes the estate and gift tax laws “permanent,”...more

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