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For income earned in 2025 and tax returns filed in 2026, this tax planning reference guide provides information on the tax rate schedules, exemptions, and contributions to savings plans. Check with your advisors to see if you need to make any adjustments regarding your tax efficiency, wealth planning, retirement planning, philanthropic strategics, and business and estate planning.

To clarify the inherited IRA distribution requirements that were first laid out in the 2019 SECURE Act, the IRS issued proposed regulations in 2021 that impacted IRA beneficiaries. While investors and wealth owners may perceive the taxes they’ll incur as unfavorable due to the requirement of minimum distributions, the new regulations may benefit investors by enabling them to spread income over multiple years. This paper, with a case study, examines the tax consequences of different withdrawal strategies.

With the U.S. election results in 2024 setting the stage for significant changes in tax legislation, the administration is expected to prioritize extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and potentially repealing parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, which may lead to adjustments in corporate taxes and individual tax provisions. As we navigate these changes, it is important for individuals and businesses to stay informed and proactive in their planning approach.

When evaluating Family Enterprise Advisors, you need to feel confident in the advisor’s competency, objectivity, and responsiveness to your needs. Giving someone access to the most significant parts of your life can be challenging, which is why following four key tips will help with your advisor selection and choose a trustworthy advisor you can rely on to get the results you need.

When considering the various aspects of managing family wealth from a tax perspective, it’s useful to have a list of “tax Do’s and Don’t’s” on hand to help ensure that no tax planning opportunities nor implications are missed. In this summary of tax items that are commonly overlooked or misunderstood, it can serve as your checklist and a good starting place for deeper conversations with your tax advisors.

Minimizing taxes is a critical challenge for higher-income taxpayers subject to higher tax rates and certain additional taxes, as well as tax-break phaseouts. To meet this challenge, this year-end tax guide focuses on key considerations to help you stay compliant with the tax laws while maximizing your tax benefits in 2024 and beyond. This guide includes tax-saving strategies on income and deductions, executive compensation, investing, real estate, business ownership, charitable giving, family and education, retirement, and estate planning.

More than six years have passed since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) brought sweeping changes to the U.S. international tax landscape. Congress continues to balance taxpayer demands for long-overdue guidance on how to address the Pillar Two initiative of the Organization for Co-operation Development. Moreover, taxpayers continue to litigate Congress’ rulemaking authority in courts. While the fiscal environment remains unclear, taxpayers should prepare for an increase in their global effective tax rate and tighter reporting stand over the next couple of years.

Businesses in 2024 continue to contend with unfavorable U.S. tax law changes and reconfigured deductions from the last few years. Meanwhile, the IRS has strengthened its enforcement capabilities by upgrading its technologies and building its workforce, underscoring the importance of compliance and accurate reporting. Against this backdrop, the transition into 2025 is shadowed by uncertainty about potentially transformative tax legislation under a new administration and new Congress. But there is risk to sittling idle.

State legislatures faced a growing number of budget shortfalls to begin fiscal year 2025 as lower tax collections and a slowing economy curtailed the pandemic-era revenue boom. However, tax increases were rarely in the discussion. Budgets were balanced, and some states still have managed to cut taxes. Regardless of what occurs in statehouses, taxpayers need to prepare for both unforeseen economic changes and the potential for federal tax reform to trickle down to the states.