A meaningful wealth planning strategy embodies your vision, hopes, and personality, all to ensure you are financially well situated over your lifetime. By developing a solid blueprint, you can provide yourself and your loved ones with a secure future. First, begin with making sure your foundation is strong, then ask yourself what you are trying to achieve with your wealth. From there, gather and consider the different building blocks you have to work with.
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Over the past decade, the Tennessee legislature has taken significant actions to provide a more practical statutory framework for trust administration. With the latest enhancements to the Tennessee's Uniform Trust Code, key revisions include changes to petition for approval of final accounting, discharge of fiduciary liability upon change of trustee or termination of trust, and liberalization of technical aspects of trust decanting.
New regulations proposed by the IRS seek to address the basic exclusion amount for estate and gift taxes which was doubled in 2017 under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The doubling of the exemption is scheduled to sunset on January 1, 2026. When this occurs, how can a donor lock in the increased exemption for years 2018 through 2025? New proposed regulations issued April 27, 2022, provide some insights to possible solutions.
While there has been some federal tax legislation in the U.S., the changes have been far more limited than many expected. Additionally, the continuing tight labor market, worries over a possible recession, and high inflation are dominating concerns. In this year-end tax letter, insights are provided on a variety of topics and most pressing tax issues, including employee benefits, digital asset taxation, excess business loss limitation developments, state pass-through entity tax regimes, things to watch for at the IRS, and more.
As the year end approaches, it’s an optimal time for individuals to review their 2022 and 2023 tax situations and identify opportunities for reducing, deferring, or accelerating their tax obligations. This article provides individual tax planning highlights and a checklist of actions to consider that may result in a reduction or deferral of taxes.
U.S. businesses are facing pressure to drive revenue, manage costs, and increase shareholder value, all while surrounded by economic and political uncertainties. How do businesses thrive in uncertain times? By turning toward opportunity, which includes proactive tax planning that can help optimize cash flow while minimizing the total tax liability over the long term. Along with proper planning, a checklist of areas is provided to help businesses maximize their tax opportunities.
Sometimes leaving an inheritance to a loved one who has a disability can do more harm than good, if the proper safeguards are not in place. A supplemental needs trust, also known as a special needs trust, can help provide for these beneficiaries.
To position your wealth and philanthropic goals in an optimal position for the long-term, there are 8 strategies that can help activate high-impact capital and initiate purpose-driven charitable giving.
2022 has been an eventful year with spiking inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical uncertainty, and unnerving market volatility. Yet amidst these uncontrollable events and uncertainty going into 2023, there are still some valuable tax planning considerations and opportunities within your control.
Non-U.S. families establishing succession planning structures rarely think about the U.S. generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax. Nevertheless, when a foreign trust becomes a U.S. domestic trust so that distributions can be made in a tax-efficient manner to the settlor’s U.S. grandchildren and more remote descendants, U.S. trustees or tax return preparers may raise questions about whether those distributions are subject to the GST tax. Advisers to these families should become familiar with the application of the GST tax rules in order to bring clarity to the situation.