by Arthur Geffen | Oct 20, 2011 | Income Tax, Tax, Tax Planning, Tax Solutions
WASHINGTON — For tax year 2012, personal exemptions and standard deductions will rise and tax brackets will widen due to inflation, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. By law, the dollar amounts for a variety of tax provisions, affecting virtually...
by Arthur Geffen | Oct 18, 2011 | LGBT, LGBT Issues
One of the nastiest dimensions of the battle over same-sex marriage has been the lack of access to divorce courts for same-sex married couples that reside in non-recognition states. While you might think that anti-gay judges would be thrilled to help these gay...
by Arthur Geffen | Oct 14, 2011 | Estate Planning, Estate Planning Solutions
Pre-nuptial agreements are fairly common in second marriages (third, fourth etc marriages also). They are particularly important when each spouse has children. Everybody remembers how the blended Brady bunch got along. Then there is real life. ...
by Arthur Geffen | Oct 14, 2011 | Estate Planning, Estate Tax
It’s easy to gripe about the rich manipulating the rules to lower their tax rates, but sometimes it’s better to simply borrow a few pages from their playbook. Finagling a low tax rate on income – as Warren Buffett talks freely about – might be difficult...
by Arthur Geffen | Oct 4, 2011 | Estate Attorney, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Tax
The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has reminded estates of married individuals dying after 2010 that they must file an estate tax return, before October 31, to pass along their unused estate and gift tax exclusion amount to their surviving spouse. It was...
