by Randy Coleman | May 3, 2013 | Annuities, Asset Protection, Charitable Lead Trusts, Charitable Planning, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, Income Taxes, Individual Retirement Accounts, IRAs, Life Insurance Protection, Retirement Accounts, Retirement Planning, ROTH IRAs |
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (which became law on January 2, 2013) made permanent the temporary estate/gift/generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions established in December 2010, increased the rate on non-exempt estates/gifts/generation-skipping...
by Randy Coleman | Mar 13, 2013 | Asset Protection, Beneficiary Designations, Estate Planning, Income Taxes, Individual Retirement Accounts, IRAs, Irrevocable Trusts, Retirement Accounts, Retirement Planning, Revocable Living Trusts |
Many people have large IRAs and retirement plan accounts and need special estate planning for these assets. A 2009 study by the Investment Company Institute found that retirement plans account for 34% of all household financial assets, up from 14% in 1978; IRAs alone...
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 | Sep 24, 2012 | Asset Protection, Business Owners, Estate Planning, Family Business, Income Taxes, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Medicare, Small Business Law |
If you are like me, you remember exactly where you were the moment you found out that Obamacare had been upheld by the Supreme Court. No matter your party or political persuasion, and regardless of whether you...
by Randy Coleman | Aug 24, 2012 | Asset Protection, Business Owners, Business Succession Planning, Corporate Compliance, Corporations, Family Business, Income Taxes, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Life Insurance Protection, Small Business Law |
What happens when a company loses its top salesperson to a tragic accident? Imagine that the salesperson drove 40 percent of the company’s million-dollar-a-month revenue. Can the remaining, less experienced sales staff compensate for the loss? Do the...
by Randy Coleman | Aug 23, 2012 | Estate Planning, Income Taxes, Retirement Accounts, ROTH IRAs |
Now that the health care law has been declared constitutional, the remaining provisions will be going into effect. One little known provision is a new 3.8% investment income surtax, also called the health care surtax or the Medicare tax; it will go into effect on...
