Analysts recently advised that given the upcoming elections, they don’t anticipate Tax Law changes until 2013 or 2014 (click here to read the article). Therefore, they anticipate the Bush Tax cuts expiring on December 31, 2012, leading us back to Estate Taxes being applied on Estates with more than $1 million and Estate Tax rates back up to 55%. We will wait to see if they do nothing and let the Bush Tax Cuts expire or again “kick the can down the road” by temporary extension, as the President said he did not want to do. Meanwhile, we do Estate Planning incorporating both options to cover either contingency.
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January 30, 2022
ESTATE PLANNING IN TRANSITORY TIMES
So much of the world feels somewhere between Transition and Chaos. Covid is still rolling for 2 plus years: as have the economic impact that has caused: food, gas, and other prices are sweeping up in hyper inflation, the Russians having 100,000 troops on the Ukraine border, and China is threatening Taiwan. All of […]
September 15, 2021
Three Things Are Always Changing In Your Estate Plan
Three things are always changing in your Estate Plan. The Law. Your Relationships. What You Own. Today we will talk about Taxes. Oh Joy, you say! THE TAX LAWS: Right now Congress is wrestling over what the new Tax Hike will look like. Several Versions of Taxes are under consideration for increases. Several that will […]
January 31, 2021
Hang in There!
As the Allied Forces, including American troops, advanced into Germany near the end of the War in Europe during World War II, the US Troops realized, “Don’t get killed now!”. Many soldiers, like those the 501st Division of the 101st Airborne of the US Army, had been in many battles from D Day on, for […]
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