News & Analysis as of

New Legislation Trump Administration Gift Tax

Haynes Boone

Federal Estate, Gift and GST Tax Highlights from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Haynes Boone on

The recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) brings sweeping and permanent changes to the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax landscape. Most notably, it significantly increases the...more

Cozen O'Connor

The Big Beautiful Bill: What Every High Net Worth Family Needs to Know

Cozen O'Connor on

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, brings sweeping changes to the tax code. While the name may sound like a marketing pitch, the law itself includes significant updates...more

Perkins Coie

Estate Planning Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Perkins Coie on

Key Takeaways - 1. The Act permanently extends the doubled gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax exclusion amount to $15 million per individual and $30 million per married couple, indexed for inflation. 2. The Act...more

Verrill

Permanent Exemptions and New Deductions: What the 2025 Tax Law Means for Estate and Tax Planning

Verrill on

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the 2025 Budget Reconciliation bill, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“Act”). This legislation extends several provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Estate Planning and Other Tax Strategies under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Husch Blackwell LLP on

President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law on July 4, 2025. The OBBBA represents a significant overhaul of the U.S. tax system, making permanent many provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

One Big Beautiful Bill and Three Key Planning Notes

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on

Last week, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). At nearly 900 pages in length, OBBBA’s size lives up to its name by enacting sweeping changes to estate and gift taxes, income taxes,...more

Kerr Russell

Act Now or Wait? What the New $15M Estate Tax Exemption Means for You

Kerr Russell on

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law (2025 Act), which made permanent a number of important tax provisions that were set to expire on January 1, 2026. From an estate planning...more

Foster Garvey PC

One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R. 1 – 119th Congress (2025-2026): Part II – Estate and Gift Tax

Foster Garvey PC on

In this second installment of our multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), my colleague David Knutson and I discuss the changes made by the Act to the federal estate and gift tax regime....more

Frost Brown Todd

One Big Beautiful Bill Act Enacts a Permanent Increase in the Estate and Gift Tax Lifetime Exclusion Amount for 2025 and Later...

Frost Brown Todd on

On July 3, 2025, and by a vote of 218 to 214, the U.S. House of Representative passed the Senate’s amended version of H.R. 1 (also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” or OBBBA 2025), which is the tax-and-budget...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

One Big Beautiful Bill Act Permanently Increases the Lifetime Estate, Gift and GST Tax Exclusion

Foley & Lardner LLP on

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).  The OBBBA extended and may permanent many key provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA), including the Lifetime Estate,...more

Miller Canfield

One Big Beautiful Bill: Estate and Gift Tax Exclusion and the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Exemption Increases to $15 Million

Miller Canfield on

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), which passed on July 3 and was signed by President Donald Trump on July 4, increases the amount individuals may transfer for federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Elementos clave de la “One Big Beautiful Bill”

La Cámara de Representantes de los EE.UU. aprobó hoy, con una votación de 218 a favor y 214 en contra, la versión previamente autorizada por el Senado del proyecto de ley conocido como “One Big Beautiful Bill”. Se espera que...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

2025 Tax Legislation Update: One Big Beautiful Bill Act Narrowly Passes Senate

Ropes & Gray LLP on

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “BBB”) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 (such version, the “House Bill”) as part of the Republican Congress’s reconciliation package. The BBB generally...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Estate Planning under President Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill”

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on

On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill.  The bill now awaits approval by the Senate.  One of the various goals of the bill is to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s...more

Polsinelli

IRS Confirms No “Clawback” for Gifts Made Under the Increased Estate and Gift Tax Exclusion

Polsinelli on

On November 26, 2019, the Treasury Department and the IRS issued final regulations under IR-2019-189 confirming that there will be no “clawback” for gifts made under the increased estate and gift tax exclusion put in place by...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Future Connecticut Estate Tax Still Unclear after Two New Public Acts

Pullman & Comley, LLC on

Following the passage of the Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in late 2017, the Connecticut legislature attempted to modify Connecticut estate tax law and make it more consistent with the new, much higher $11.2 million federal...more

Polsinelli

Impact of New Tax Laws on Estate Planning

Polsinelli on

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) was signed into law by the President on December 22, 2017, and represents one of the most significant rewritings of the federal tax code since 1986. ...more

Ruder Ware

More Planning Tips for Individuals Under New Tax Act

Ruder Ware on

As Shanna Yonke mentioned in her January 22, 2018 Legal Update The New Tax Law Provides Estate Planning Opportunities, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on December 22, 2017. The Act (officially,...more

Mintz

Favorable Changes to Estate, Gift and GST Tax Laws Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Mintz on

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), signed into law on December 22, 2017, significantly increased the exemption amounts for the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. These increases may present...more

Ruder Ware

The New Tax Law Provides Estate Planning Opportunities

Ruder Ware on

Shortly before Christmas, Congress approved and President Trump signed into law the Tax Cut and Jobs Act. The new law increases the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions from $5 million to $10...more

Stinson LLP

What You Should Know About Estate and Gift Tax Reform

Stinson LLP on

The tax bill recently passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Trump retains the gift and estate tax, but substantially curtails its reach. The new tax legislation represents a dramatic change to our transfer tax...more

Mayer Brown

President Signs Tax Reform Bill

Mayer Brown on

On December 22, 2017, the president signed the tax reform bill. It is generally identical to the conference committee bill discussed in our blog post of December 19, and specifically there were no changes with respect to...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Impact on Gift, Estate, and GST Taxes Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The tax law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1), signed by President Trump on December 22, 2017, contains important changes to provisions governing gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) taxes...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Trust and Estate Planning

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law on December 22, 2017, includes significant changes to the U.S. federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax laws, effective as of January 1, 2018. In addition,...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Impact of the Tax Law on Estate Planning

President Trump signed sweeping tax legislation into law on Dec. 22, 2017, resulting in several significant changes to the wealth transfer tax system, effective as of Jan. 1, 2018....more

25 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide