Income Taxes, Tax Planning, Retirement Plan

Déjà Vu: Biden’s 2025 Budget Nearly Identical on Health, Retirement

Groom Law Group, Chartered on 3/19/2024

On March 11, 2024, President Biden released his budget for Fiscal Year 2025. Hewing closely to proposals in its last budget, the Administration’s new budget proposes a number of major tax increases, including the following...more

Estate and Tax Planning for US Expatriates

Allen Barron, Inc. on 11/16/2023

What are the most important elements of estate and tax planning for US expatriates? Are you planning to move out of the United States? Are you a US taxpayer who lives and works outside of the country? What are some of the...more

Want to Put More Away in Your 401(k)? Qualified Plan Limits Generally Increase in 2024

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/3/2023

Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS just announced the 2024 annual limits that will apply to tax-qualified retirement plans. For a third year in a row, the IRS increased the annual limits, allowing participants to save even more in...more

Weekly IRS Roundup July 24 – July 28, 2023

McDermott Will & Emery on 8/2/2023

Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of July 24, 2023 – July 28, 2023. July 24, 2023: The IRS released Internal Revenue Bulletin 2023-30,...more

Estate Planning Pitfall: You’ve Relocated Out of the Country Without Checking Estate Tax Laws

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. on 7/13/2023

Are you thinking about moving abroad after you retire? If so, don’t forget to consider your destination country’s estate tax laws. ...more

Tax Tips for New College Graduates

Bowditch & Dewey on 6/22/2023

As new college graduates cross the stage to receive their diplomas, many will also be heading to their first full-time jobs. There are some tax tips new graduates can implement early on that will help with savings in the long...more

2023 Estate Planning Update

Verrill on 1/25/2023

This alert from Verrill’s Private Clients & Fiduciary Services Group highlights the latest changes to the income tax and transfer tax landscape. The alert addresses the SECURE ACT 2.0, federal and state transfer tax updates...more

2022 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 11/18/2022

During 2022, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, global inflation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the uncertainty about the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), and the Inflation Reduction Act...more

2022 California Estate and Tax Planning Newsletter

Blank Rome LLP on 1/26/2022

Our annual estate and tax planning newsletter discusses certain concepts and techniques that should be considered in 2022 by our clients and friends in California. Perhaps the most important recent development was the failure...more

Is My Foreign Retirement Account Subject to IRS Information Return Reporting (FBAR, 3520, etc.)?

Freeman Law on 1/6/2022

United States citizens and residents[i] are subject to federal income tax on their worldwide income. For example, even if a United States citizen permanently relocates to a foreign country, he or she will generally continue...more

Tax Court Addresses Self-Directed IRA

Freeman Law on 12/7/2021

The recent Tax Court opinion in McNulty v. Commissioner, 157 T.C. No. 10 (2021) addressed whether distributions from a purported self-directed IRA were taxable. The Court also took up the question of whether tax penalties...more

House of Representatives 5376: Current Tax Legislation Pending in the U.S. House of Representatives

Foster Garvey PC on 10/15/2021

...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

Proposed Federal Tax Changes Take Aim at Wealthy Businesses and Individuals

Gould + Ratner LLP on 10/8/2021

The tax plan released last month by the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee would bring about extensive changes in the taxation of businesses and high-income individuals. Proposals Affecting Businesses - Key...more

Better Act Before The Build Back Better Act

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC on 9/23/2021

It is said that two things are certain in life: death and taxes. True, but incomplete. What is missing from this short list is a third inevitable occurrence – tax law changes. We now have a new and pressing series of proposed...more

2020 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 11/25/2020

In 2020, COVID-19, the US presidential election, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA), and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the CARES ACT) dominated the planning landscape....more

Policy Outlook: How The 2020 Election Outcomes Will Impact Your Business - Health Policy

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/9/2020

In this session, health law policy authorities discussed changes likely in 2021 in a Biden Administration and how these changes will impact business objectives and strategies for health industry stakeholders...more

[Webinar] Policy Outlook: How The 2020 Election Outcomes Will Impact Your Business - November 5th, 12:00 pm - 2:15 pm EST

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/22/2020

Are you prepared for the critical impacts of the US election outcome to you and your business in 2021 and beyond? Join McDermott’s lawyers and our policy and lobbying team for perspective on the effects of administration...more

ROCK OF AGES video

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R.... on 10/12/2020

Rock of Ages - The Arithmathean Pension Plan is a creative idea on how to use a pooled income fund as a version of non-qualified deferred compensation. Provide a lifetime annuity of tax-free distributions for key employees!...more

ROCK OF AGES - THE ARITHMATHEAN PENSION PLAN

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R.... on 10/9/2020

Podcast episode #25 speaks to using the pooled income fund for non-deferred compensation planning. Provide key employees with a lifetime income of tax-free distributions. ...more

Planning for Retirement: How Attractive is Massachusetts for Estate Tax Planning?

Bowditch & Dewey on 10/5/2020

Massachusetts is already an unattractive state of residency from an estate tax planning perspective because of its low estate tax filing threshold of $1,000,000 per person. Once a person’s adjusted taxable estate is over $1M...more

Can I Withdraw Funds From My Retirement Account During COVID-19?

Bowditch & Dewey on 9/25/2020

The Paycheck Protection Program money is spent, the temporary $600 weekly unemployment supplement is over, and we still need money. We could draw on our savings, sell investments, or take out a loan against our home. Usually,...more

Required Minimum Distributions From Retirement Plans Have Been Waived for 2020 – IRS Notice 2020-51 May Give Taxpayers That Have...

Foster Garvey PC on 7/2/2020

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act waives the requirement that taxpayers take required minimum distributions (“RMDs”) for 2020 from IRAs, 401(k) plans and other defined contribution plans....more

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