Lifetime charitable giving, properly planned, may afford income tax savings. Under current federal income tax law, the income tax charitable deduction is available to taxpayers who itemize deductions rather than take the...more
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act raised the amount that can be sheltered from federal estate tax in 2019 to $11.4 million for an individual and double that amount, or $22.8 million, for a married couple. ...more
Even if Congress fails this autumn to overhaul the Internal Revenue Code and, conceivably, repeal the federal “death” or estate tax, 2018 can be expected to bring relief in the form of taxpayer-friendly inflation adjustments....more