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Hot Topics for Private Clients and Family Offices from the 2025 Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning – Part Two

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In our previous blog post on the 2025 Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, we highlighted the concept of purpose trusts, a conference topic involving unique planning and charitable opportunities. In this second post of...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Another Attack on Private Placement Life Insurance

The use of private placement life insurance (PPLI) by high-net-worth individuals has generated considerable controversy over the years, with proponents arguing that it is a proper use of existing laws that provide many of the...more

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Elder Law and Special Needs Newsletter: February 2024 Issue

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Our February Elder Law and Special Needs newsletter is now available! In this issue, our attorneys delve into timely topics such as recent legislative developments in New Jersey. Specifically, we explore new laws designed to...more

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Life Settlements Gain Greater Attention from Private Funds

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Given the threat of a significant repricing across multiple asset classes, investors are looking for fresh ideas. The current bout of market volatility has not spared many categories of investment, as equities and fixed...more

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Splitting the Difference: IRS Applies Exempt Organization Excise Tax to Split-Dollar Life Insurance Policies

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Our Federal Tax Group delves into proposed Treasury regulations addressing exempt organizations’ below-market loans used to pay for split-dollar life insurance premiums....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

IRS issues simplified procedures for insurance companies to change methods of accounting to comply with amended Section 846

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released two revenue procedures that relate to the implementation of accounting method changes as a result of the revisions to Section 846 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

IRS and Treasury issue proposed regulations on discounting unpaid losses

On November 6, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) issued proposed regulations that address amendments to the rules for discounting unpaid losses under section 846 that were enacted...more

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Wealth Management Update - October 2018

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October Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The October § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

IRS issues key audit directive for life insurers

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Large Business and International (LB&I) division recently released an Industry Director’s Directive (IDD) that provides key guidance for life insurers. The IDD is the product of a two-year...more

Carlton Fields

Tax Reform: Insurance Company Provisions

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Recent tax legislation, informally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) contains several changes that affect the insurance industry....more

Carlton Fields

Expect Focus - International - March 2018

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Trends Against BITS and Investor State Dispute Resolution - In my first Expect Focus International article (http://bit.ly/2G9Demu), I suggested that investors doing business outside the United States should do so in...more

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New Tax Law Eliminates 30-Day Safe Harbor Against CFC Status

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The recent tax law changes have focused primarily on corporate income tax, and in the international context, mostly on outbound tax matters. However, certain less publicized changes to the Code’s controlled foreign...more

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Wealth Management Update - March 2018

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March Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The March § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and...more

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The New Estate Tax Law – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

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Increase in Exemption from Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes - On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") was signed into law. The Act implements a variety of significant tax reforms....more

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Impact of US Tax Reform on Insurance Companies

On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law a budget reconciliation act commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This sweeping tax bill represents the most comprehensive reform of U.S. tax...more

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