by Arthur Geffen | Mar 15, 2023 | Estate Planning, Estate Planning Solutions, Estate Tax, Wealth Planning
A bear market in stocks may be painful, but it can create the right circumstances for estate planning. Last year, U.S. stocks reached bear market territory, which is defined as a drop of 20% in value from recent record highs. The markets aren’t out of the woods just...
by Arthur Geffen | Oct 12, 2022 | Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Gift Tax, Gifts
US Taxpayers enjoy a lifetime gift and estate tax exemption. This is the amount a person can transfer at death or during life without triggering a transfer tax. The exemption amount for 2023 is set to rise $860,000 to $12,920,000 per person ($25,840,000 per married...
by Arthur Geffen | May 4, 2022 | Estate Planning, Estate Planning Solutions, Estate Tax
Recently issued proposed clawback regulations (Proposed Treasury Regulations Section 20.2010-1(c)(3)), (the proposed regs) may undermine the planning your clients completed over the past few years to address the coming reduction in the estate tax exemption or the then...
by Arthur Geffen | Dec 9, 2021 | Estate Planning, Estate Planning Solutions, Estate Tax
Rising ExemptionsThe lifetime gift and estate tax exemption is rising to $11.85 million next year, said Cain, but there is a lot of speculation that Congress will act to cut the exemption, and in any case, the current law will cut it by nearly half at the end of 2025....
by Arthur Geffen | Nov 12, 2021 | Estate Planning, Estate Tax
The updated version of the Build Back Better Act released by the House Budget Committee on November 3, 2021, does not include any of the significant gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax or grantor trust legislation that was included in the House Ways...
by Arthur Geffen | Oct 6, 2021 | Estate Planning, Estate Planning Solutions, Estate Tax
Last month, the House Ways & Means Committee (the “Committee”) approved draft legislation (the “Legislation”) as part of Congress’ ongoing $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation process. The Legislation includes significant tax proposals that, if...
