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Allen Barron, Inc.

The Sunset of the TCJA – Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 – Is Scheduled for the End of 2025

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The sunset of the TCJA – the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, is currently scheduled for the end of 2025.  The TCJA contributed substantial changes to the US tax code that have benefited many US taxpayers.  How should a US...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

IRS to Leave More in Our Paychecks in 2024

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Is it possible for the IRS to leave more in our paychecks in 2024? What has changed for the 2024 federal income tax brackets and how will these apply to the tax return(s) you’ll file in 2025?...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Transferee Liability for Estate Tax: The Downside of Being a Beneficiary

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Death of a Parent- In the context of a family-owned business, it is often the case that the matriarch or patriarch of the family is also the chief executive of the business. They may have founded the business, or they may...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Fall 2022 Estate Planning Update

This Estate Planning Update reviews the newly-released estate tax exemption and gifting adjustments for 2023, the extended deadline to make a portability election, and simple ways that business owners and professionals can...more

Freeman Law

The IRS’s Renewed Focus on Abusive Trust Arrangements

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Taxpayers have long utilized trust arrangements for the transfer of wealth to beneficiaries or for the protection of assets from creditors.  Generally, there is nothing nefarious about these types of arrangements.  Rather,...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

How Dealings Between Related Parties Doomed A Captive Insurer

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Insurance: What is it? How does it work? Assume that Acme Co is paying premiums for commercial insurance coverage to protect itself from economic losses that may arise out of various events. These premiums are deductible...more

Williams Mullen

IRS Extends Filing Deadline for Federal Gift Tax and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Returns

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) issued various notices addressing both payment and filing deadlines for taxpayers. On March 18, 2020, for example, the IRS issued Notice 2020-17,...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Wills, Trusts & Estates: Plain and Simple – Year End Gifting

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Now is the time that many people think about gifting to loved ones, especially with the holidays upon us. In addition to making you, as well as the beneficiary of your gift, feel good, lifetime gifts can help reduce your...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Federal Estate Tax Exclusion Rises to $11,580,000 for 2020 (and more inflation adjustments)

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The IRS published Revenue Procedure 2019-44 on November 6, 2019, to set the inflation adjustments for 2020. The exclusion from federal estate will increase to $11,580,000, up from $11,400,000 in 2019....more

Holland & Hart LLP

Tell Your Agent to File Your Tax Returns!

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In October 2005, Carlton Stauffer executed a durable power of attorney (“DPA”) naming his son, Hoff Stauffer, as his agent. Stauffer v. Comm’r, No. 18-2105 (1st Cir. Sept. 16, 2019). The DPA granted broad authority to Hoff...more

Cole Schotz

Court Finds That Penalty For Late Filing Of Estate Tax Return Was Arbitrary And Capricious

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Seasoned trusts and estates practitioners know certain truths, such as: Stuff happens. Some estate tax disputes should not be litigated, but they are anyway. Sometimes justice is done....more

Holland & Hart LLP

New IRS Addresses for Filing Estate Tax Returns

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The Instructions for Form 706 released in November 2018 included new addresses; however, we felt a reminder could be useful since the filing address changed mid-year...more

Burr & Forman

New IRS Proposed 199A Regulations Provide Guidance on 20% Profit Pass-Through Deduction

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On August 8th, the IRS released its much-awaited Proposed Regulations on the new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for pass-through businesses. The new deduction applies to essentially all types of businesses other than C...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

You Can Give Away More Tax Free in 2018

After staying the same for five years, the amount you can give away to any one individual in a particular year without reporting the gift will increase in 2018. ...more

Dickinson Wright

Estate Tax Portability – Not So Fast My Friend

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Many of you have heard of the new Federal estate tax “portability” rule that allows a surviving spouse to effectively inherit any unused federal estate tax exemption of a predeceased spouse. An individual can only use the...more

BCLP

IRS Grants Taxpayers Two-Year Window to File Portability Election

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In a long-awaited move, the IRS announced recently that taxpayers will now have at least two years to file an estate tax return to elect portability of a decedent’s unused estate tax exemption to the decedent’s surviving...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Wealth Management Update - February 2017

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

Goulston & Storrs PC

New Basis Reporting Requirements for Executors and Beneficiaries

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Recent federal legislation adds fresh compliance burdens to an old concept in federal tax law: the step-up in tax basis of appreciated property at death. New reporting requirements will apply to estates required to file a...more

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