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Frantz Ward LLP

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

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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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

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

Ballard Spahr LLP

New Laws for a New Year: Year-End Estate Planning in Preparation for 2025

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As 2024 quickly comes to a close, the new year will bring a change in the presidency, a new Congress, and potential changes to policies and laws that could impact individuals of all wealth levels. Going into the election,...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2024 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

This year was busy for trusts and estates practitioners. With 2025 marking the final year of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), many of its implications for federal corporate and individual income tax, gift, estate and...more

Lathrop GPM

History and Outlook of the Federal Estate Tax

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At the end of 2025, the federal estate and gift tax exemption will dramatically decrease unless Congress affirmatively passes a law saying otherwise. This event is the “sunsetting” of a 2018 federal tax law and is leading...more

Brooks Pierce

Changing Laws Present Unique Estate Planning Opportunities for Married Couples

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Today’s federal estate and gift tax laws may be remembered as the most generous to wealthy families since the Great Depression. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) doubled the federal estate, gift, and generation skipping...more

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Planning for the Sunset of the Gift and Estate Tax Exemption

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Today’s federal estate and gift tax laws may be remembered as the most generous to wealthy families since the Great Depression. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) doubled the federal estate, gift, and generation skipping...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Seize the Moment: Maximizing Your Estate Planning Before 2026

In a significant legislative shift, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 doubled the exemption amounts for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (collectively known as “Death Taxes”). As of 2024, the federal...more

Lathrop GPM

Estate Tax Sunset Encourages Strategic Asset Retitling

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Current tax laws provide historically high exclusion amounts for the federal estate and generation skipping transfer tax. These exclusion amounts, however, are slated to sunset by roughly 50% at the end of 2025. ...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Maximizing Your Wealth Transfer Potential: Updates to Gift, Estate, and GST Tax Exemptions for 2024

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When it comes to passing wealth to the next generation, one of the most powerful tools in our toolbox is the use of your lifetime gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax (GST) exemption amounts. While the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2022 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

During 2022, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, global inflation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the uncertainty about the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), and the Inflation Reduction Act...more

Baker Donelson

Estate Planning Alert: The Time for Planning is Now

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Earlier this year we issued an Estate Planning Alert advising high-net worth individuals to consider taking certain estate planning steps by the end of 2020. As the end of the year approaches, it is important to again...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2020 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

In 2020, COVID-19, the US presidential election, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA), and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the CARES ACT) dominated the planning landscape....more

Bowditch & Dewey

When to Take Advantage of a Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT)

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Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in 2020 each person may transfer up to $11,580,000 without incurring a gift or estate tax. This generous exemption amount will sunset at the end of 2025, which means that in 2026, the...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Year-End Estate Planning in an Election Year

The 2020 election is less than a month away and year-end estate planning is already underway for many. Under current law, the estate, gift and GST (generation-skipping transfer) tax exemptions for 2020 are set at $11,580,000...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts: What You Should Know

Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts, or “SLATs,” may be the ideal vehicle for clients interested in pursuing wealth-transfer tax planning. Before deciding whether SLATs may be right for you and your family, it’s important to...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Personal Planning Strategies - December 2019

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Estate, Gift and GST Tax Update - What This Means for Your Current Will, Revocable Trust and Estate Plan - The estate and gift tax regimes have been permanent and unified since the passage of The American Taxpayer...more

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Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Calculates Projected Inflation-Adjusted Figures for Estate and Gift Taxes for 2020

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Based on the inflation measure provided by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period ending August 31, 2019, Thompson Reuters Checkpoint has released their projected inflation-adjusted Estate,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Proposed Tax Regulations Eliminate Possibility of Clawback of Lifetime Gifts for Estate Tax Purposes

As previously posted, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law in December 2017 (the “2017 Act”) made significant changes to the federal wealth transfer system with respect to gift and estate tax transfers during the...more

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Increased Estate/Gift Tax Exemptions Under TCJA: No-Clawback, but Use it or Lose It

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) passed in December, 2017, doubled the estate and gift tax basic exclusion amount from $5.0 million to $10.0, coupled with a cost of living adjustment. For 2019, the basic exclusion amount is...more

Winstead PC

IRS Issues Proposed Regulations Alleviating "Clawback" Concerns

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On Dec. 22, 2017, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the 2017 Act) into law. The 2017 Act roughly doubled the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemption amounts from $5.49 million per...more

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