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This article discusses the family business succession planning process and the changes we can expect to see in the remaining months of 2020, including the impacts of COVID-19 and the November elections....more
- Annual inflation-indexing continues to increase the historically high lifetime exemption amount for gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Those of considerable wealth who have not yet made gifts, such as...more
For most family business owners, the old way of discount planning has become perishable. For many years, closely-held business owners routinely heard estate planners advise them to give or sometimes sell family members’...more
With the affirmative vote in the House today, both Houses of Congress have now passed a final version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, clearing the legislation for President Trump’s signature. President Trump is widely expected...more
On July 23rd of last year, I blogged on a set of proposed regulations eliminating the requirement that a taxpayer attach a copy of his or her Section 83(b) election to their individual tax return. This July, the IRS made the...more
Chapter 14 of the Internal Revenue Code consists of four Code Sections (Sections 2701 – 2704) designed to close valuation loopholes. Prior to Congress’s enactment of Chapter 14 in 1990, estate planners had a host of tools...more
On July 25, 2016, in T.D. 9779, the IRS published final regulations concerning the procedures for making an election under section 83(b) of the Code. The new final regulation, Treas. Reg. §1.83-2, eliminates the requirement...more
In this Presentation: - Topics - Inversion - Inversions – How Did We Get Here? - Impact Of The §367 Regulations - 2003 – Enactment of §7874 - §7874 - Determining “Ownership” - Treasury Regulation...more