by Randy Coleman | Jul 30, 2014 | Estate Planning, estate tax, Estate Taxes, Revocable Living Trusts |
Are you married and is the last time you and your spouse updated your estate plan more than a few years ago? Then chances are your estate plan contains good old “AB Trust” planning (also called “Marital and Family Trusts” or “QTIP” and “Bypass Trusts”) which, up...
by Randy Coleman | Jan 20, 2013 | Charitable Planning, Estate Planning, estate tax, Estate Taxes, Gift Tax, Income Taxes, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Retirement Planning |
Here’s Our Take On What the New Tax Law Means to You The law passed at New Years to deal with the so-called “fiscal cliff” included revisions to estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (“GST”) tax laws and income tax laws that will affect...
by Randy Coleman | Nov 4, 2012 | Asset Protection, Business Owners, Business Succession Planning, Estate Planning, estate tax, Estate Taxes, Exemption Planning, Family Business, Gift Tax, Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Irrevocable Trusts, Premarital Agreements, Revocable Living Trusts, Small Business Law, Trustee, Wills and Probate |
We have discussed the 2012 tax-saving opportunity quite a bit here lately. You can read previous posts here and here. This article continues our conversation by providing our clients and readers a number of factors to consider when deciding whether to gift or not to...
by Randy Coleman | Aug 30, 2012 | Discretionary Trusts, Estate Planning, estate tax, Estate Taxes, Exemption Planning, Gift Tax, Irrevocable Trusts, Retirement Planning, Revocable Living Trusts, Wills and Probate |
Legislation in effect until December 31, 2012 makes the present a particularly important time for tax planning. In late 2010, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010...
by Randy Coleman | Oct 19, 2011 | Estate Planning, estate tax, Gift Tax |
Apparently, the IRS has significantly increased the number of audits it performs for intrafamily transfers of property, where there is no gift tax return filed by the person making the transfer. The extent of the effort is detailed in an article in today’s...
by Randy Coleman | May 2, 2011 | estate tax, Estate Taxes, Income Taxes, Individual Retirement Accounts, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), IRAs, Retirement Accounts, ROTH IRAs |
As everyone is generally aware, Congress and state legislatures are in session and passing new laws. Unfortunately, many of them are laws dealing with increasing taxes, directly or indirectly. In other words, the statutes governing taxes at the federal,...
