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Key Estate Planning Considerations Resulting From the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)

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On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”) was signed into law, bringing with it important changes to the federal estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer (GST) tax system. Many of the provisions in...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

The Enactment of OBBBA: It’s Time to Plan, Not Relax – “Winter is Coming”

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In the months preceding the general election in 2024, the owners of many closely held businesses who had not yet given much thought to the disposition of their future estates, including their businesses, decided they should...more

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

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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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

One Big Beautiful Bill and Three Key Planning Notes

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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

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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

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

The Sun Will Not Set: The One Big Beautiful Bill

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The long-anticipated “sunset” of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) was slated for the end of 2025. Upon this “sunset,” the federal estate and gift tax exemptions—which reached $13.99 million per individual in...more

Williams Mullen

Implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the Basic Exclusion Amount and GST Exemption

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By way of background, in 2012, the basic exclusion amount and GST exemption were permanently increased to $5 million, with that amount indexed for inflation. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), temporarily increased the...more

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

Unpacking the One Big Beautiful Bill: What Changes Are Required to Optimize Your Estate Plan?

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) into law. The OBBBA is the tax and budget reconciliation package for the current 2025 fiscal year through 2034. While the bill focuses primarily...more

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

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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

Goodwin

OBBBA Solidifies High Estate Tax Exemptions & Charitable Giving Changes

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President Trump’s July 4th signing of the Opportunity, Balance, and Better Budget Act sets an increased $15 million federal estate and gift tax exclusion and generation-skipping transfer tax exemption per individual,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

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

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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

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

The OBBBA - What Has (and Hasn’t) Changed for Individual Income, Estate, and Gift Taxes

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act ("OBBBA”) was signed into law last week, continuing the applicability of many individual federal income, estate, and gift tax provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), and in some...more

Miller Canfield

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

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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

Loeb & Loeb LLP

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Breaking Down Key Changes In The New Tax Legislation

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The enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has ushered in significant tax legislation based predominantly on the Trump administration’s stated priorities. ... Below we summarize some of these key changes and note...more

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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

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Now Is the Time to Revisit Trusts & Estates Plans, as Tax Exemption Law Changes Are on the Horizon

On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by a single-vote margin. This bill adopted many of the recommendations of the House Ways and Means Committee, with a few changes along the...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

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

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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

Bilzin Sumberg

Preparation of the "Sunset" and Estate Planning in an Uncertain Economic Climate for High Net Worth Families

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The recent volatility in the stock market, ongoing trade wars, and talks of further increases to the federal debt ceiling have intensified concerns in recent months around economic uncertainty and the risk of recession. ...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Baseline vs. the Byrd Rule: What’s Next for the Gift and Estate Tax?

On April 10, 2025, the House of Representatives narrowly approved the Senate’s version of the FY 2025 budget resolution, which it passed on April 5, formally aligning both chambers on President Trump’s legislative tax agenda....more

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Here Comes the Sun(set of the TCJA): Taking Advantage of the 2025 Exclusion Amounts

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The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “TCJA”) brought significant changes to the federal estate and gift tax laws, marking a pivotal shift in the landscape of estate planning and wealth transfer. Enacted on December 22, 2017,...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Baselines and the Bottom Line: How Congress’s Choice Could Determine the Fate of the Estate Tax Exemption

As lawmakers advance toward the critical 2025 tax cliff, a key—and increasingly contentious—policy question is coming into sharper focus: What should Congress assume about the future when it scores the cost of extending the...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Act Now or Pay Later? Will Congress Extend the Higher Estate Tax Exemption Before 2026?

As we approach the end of the first quarter of 2025, estate planners and their clients are closely monitoring developments in Washington, D.C. The scheduled sunset of the increased estate and gift tax exemption is now less...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Watch the Sunset: Federal Estate Exclusion Set To Shrink in 2026; New Changes on the Horizon

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is set to end at the close of this year, resulting in a federal estate exclusion that is less than half of the current $13.99 million exclusion. Other changes to the tax structure are...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Act Now or Pay Later? Estate Planning Strategies Before the 2025 Tax Sunset

The current federal estate tax exemption levels, introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2018, have provided historically high federal estate tax exemptions. But this period of increased exemption is expected to...more

Stinson LLP

Trump's First 100 Days: Tax, Trusts & Estates

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The Trump administration is expected to work with Congress to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), but this will take longer than 100 days....more

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