Across all industries, family offices and their owners and management teams face rapidly evolving challenges, opportunities, and risks in the dynamic environment that is 2025. Here are six issues that family offices should...more
3/14/2025
/ Business Succession ,
Buy-Sell Agreements ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Estate Tax ,
Ethics ,
Family Offices ,
FinCEN ,
Generation-Skipping Transfer ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Limited Liability Company (LLC) ,
Limited Partnerships ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Reform ,
Trusts ,
Valuation
Through the years, the US Tax Court has provided significant clarification on the gift tax consequences of terminating qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) trusts. Two new cases in 2024, Estate of Sally J. Anenberg...more
12/4/2024
/ Estate Planning ,
Estate Tax ,
Gift Tax ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
QTIP Trusts ,
Surviving Spouse ,
Tax Court ,
Termination ,
Transfer of Assets ,
Treasury Regulations ,
Trust Distributions ,
Trusts
In the realm of estate planning, many people are familiar with the traditional will as a means of distributing assets after death. However, the inclusion of a revocable trust (also known as a living trust), which offers a...more
The TCJA doubled the lifetime exclusion and GST tax exemption. This exclusion amount, adjusted for inflation, is now $13.61 million and is expected to be approximately $13.99 million in 2025. However, in 2026, the amount will...more
9/18/2024
/ Estate Tax ,
Generation-Skipping Transfer ,
Gift Tax ,
Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs) ,
Inflation Adjustments ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT) ,
Sunset Provisions ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Transfer Taxes ,
Trusts
As we highlighted in the Family Office Newsletter’s pages in June, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is slated to go into effect on January 1, 2024. Under the law, many newly formed and existing entities organized under...more