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DarrowEverett LLP

Business Succession Planning: Pros and Cons of Passing S Corp Shares in Trust

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Business succession planning and estate planning are often linked together, particularly in the case of closely held family businesses. In the case of a shareholder who wishes to pass along their shares of an S corporation as...more

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Transferring the Family Business To A Private Foundation? Are You Sure About That?

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Charitable organizations are dependent, in no small part, upon the financial support of many successful business owners. The generosity of these individuals and their organizations may be a manifestation of several factors...more

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Tax Court Decision on Family Business Affecting Income Tax, Estate Tax

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In a recent Tax Court decision, the court reviewed the activities of the Huffman family as it pertained to corporate dealings involving the family aviation business (Infinity Aerospace Inc. which the court refers to by its...more

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Transferee Liability for Estate Tax: The Downside of Being a Beneficiary

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Death of a Parent- In the context of a family-owned business, it is often the case that the matriarch or patriarch of the family is also the chief executive of the business. They may have founded the business, or they may...more

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IRS Eliminates Worry About "Clawback"

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In response to Internal Revenue Code Section 2001(g)(2), enacted as part of the 2017 Tax Act, in which the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to prescribe regulations to carry out IRC Section 2001(g) with respect to the...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

All In The Family: The Closely Held Business, The Private Foundation And Indirect Self-Dealing

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Home for the Holidays? Our last post considered the division of a business between family members as a means of preempting the adverse consequences that will often follow disagreements within the family as to the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Recent Rulings on “Family Limited Liability Entity” Election Create Traps for the Unwary

Although every LLC, limited partnership or other pass-through entity doing business in Alabama, and even those simply organized under Alabama law, are subject to an annual business privilege tax (BPT), certain entities can...more

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Estate Tax Changes Past, Present and Future

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I. INTRODUCTION - This outline is a selective and evolving review of the history of the modern federal estate tax. It originated during the attempts to repeal the estate tax in President Clinton’s second term and...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

The Future Of Proposed IRS § 2704 Modifications Is Uncertain

Proposed changes to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) § 2704, which would impact the valuation of transfers of family business interests at death, come at an interesting time politically given the Trump Administration’s desire to...more

Perkins Coie

What Proposed Tax Plans by Trump Administration and House Republicans Mean for Personal Planning

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The election of Donald Trump and Republican majorities in U.S. Congress make the future of the federal transfer tax system (gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer (GST) taxes) uncertain. President-elect Trump and...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2016 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

In 2016, we continued to experience a period of relative stability in our federal transfer tax system and have been able to plan without expecting imminent significant changes to the system. Under the American Taxpayer Relief...more

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IRS Proposes Valuation Discount Regulations: Implications for Family-Controlled Businesses

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IRS issues new proposed rules aimed at eliminating valuation discounts for transfers of interests in family-controlled entities. Clients considering making transfers of interests in such entities should act soon....more

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IRS Proposes New Rules for Valuing Interests in Family-Owned Businesses

Earlier this month, the IRS issued long-awaited proposed regulations under Section 2704 of the Internal Revenue Code that, if adopted, will have a substantial impact on traditional estate planning techniques commonly utilized...more

McAfee & Taft

Proposed IRS regulations will limit valuation discounts for family-held entities

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On August 2, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations that, when finalized, will affect clients holding and transferring interests in family-controlled entities. Family limited partnerships...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Proposed Regulations Would Curtail Most Valuation Discounts for Family-Owned Businesses – 2016 Planning Opportunity

Recently proposed Treasury Regulations (“Proposed Regulations”), if enacted as proposed, would curtail valuation discounts that currently reduce the value of certain business interests transferred during life or at death for...more

Blank Rome LLP

Act Now to Avoid Proposed IRS Rules Which Would Eliminate Valuation Discounts for Intra-Family Transfers of Interests in Family...

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Action Item: Owners of family businesses and investment entities (such as family limited partnerships, limited liability companies (“LLCs”), and corporations) are urged to consider making transfers of interests in those...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Proposed Section 2704 Regulations Would Impose Significant Restrictions on Valuation Discount Planning for Family Controlled...

High net worth families often utilize family entity structures, such as limited partnerships or limited liability companies, in order to provide for the coordinated management of family assets and move wealth to younger...more

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Proposed Section 2704 Regulations Would Impose Major Restrictions on Valuation Discount Planning

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Long-awaited proposed regulations under section 2704 of the Internal Revenue Code, released on August 2, 2016, would make sweeping and very significant changes to the valuation of interests in many family-controlled entities...more

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Closely Held Family Entities in Grave Danger: Minority Interest and Lack of Marketability Discounts About to Disappear?

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After years of slow boiling anticipation, statements made by the IRS and the Treasury this year heated up the conjecture and anticipation which finally came to a head on August 2, 2016. I’m of course talking about the...more

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Proposed Treasury Regulations Cause for Concern Among Family Controlled Businesses

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A profound effect on family controlled businesses may be in store when proposed Treasury Regulations under Section 2704 of the Internal Revenue Code come to pass. Under the new regulations, taxpayers would be precluded from...more

BakerHostetler

IRS Plans to Further Restrict Family Business Valuation Discounts

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IRS regulations anticipated for release as early as this September may further restrict valuation discounts. The exact scope of the regulations is unknown, but the regulations will likely make it more difficult for taxpayers...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: IRS Moves Mean It's Time to Shift Family Entity Wealth

The IRS may take action very soon to eliminate or reduce a widely used and valuable family business entity wealth transfer strategy. The window of opportunity to take advantage of this strategy may close within the next month...more

Troutman Pepper

The Time to Transfer Entity Interests Is Now - Trust and Estates Update Vol. 2015, Issue 1

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Upcoming IRS regulations may significantly limit and reduce planning opportunities to transfer minority interests in closely held entities to family members and increase the transfer tax cost associated with moving such...more

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