Key Tax and Estate Planning Strategies FLEXCAST
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5.0 Credits
Member Price $245.00
Non-Member Price $282.00
Overview
Join us as we address the important and hot topics for tax and estate planning in 2022. This course will cover the latest in the legislation, court decisions, and IRS rulings that emerge in late 2021 and in 2022. Will the new administration succeed in changing how planning should be done? What opportunities exist to guard against higher tax rates in the future? Can new laws be made retroactively effective? Also, we’ll have an in-depth discussion of the key planning issues that most clients must consider as they look forward to their future. We will explore in greater depth areas of income tax planning and the ideal entity choice, as well as highlighting estate planning concerns.
Highlights
Income Tax Planning Techniques. The SECURE Act. Charitable Tax Planning. Life Insurance Trusts. Directed Trusts. Decanting and Asset Protection Trusts.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs and other tax professionals.
Objectives
Gain a practical and useful understanding of current hot issues announced by the legislature, the courts, and the IRS. Become familiar with income tax, entity choice, and estate planning strategies to benefit clients. Address planning, both in the near and long-term, to get ahead of the curve in dealing with both changes in laws and how to advise clients to proceed.
Preparation
None.
Notice
This is a FlexCast (no exam required) and may be viewed only Monday - Saturday, 5am - 5pm PT. You may take up to one year from the date of purchase to complete the course. Pause your FlexCast and resume at a convenient day during the hours above. Partial credit for 2+ credit courses: If you are unable to complete the course in one sitting, partial credit can be awarded (minimum of one credit). To earn the remaining credits, you must return later and start the course from the beginning. Use chat to ask questions of a subject matter expert during the program.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Steven Siegel, Western CPE
Steven G. Siegel, JD, LLM, is president of The Siegel Group, which provides consulting services to attorneys, accountants, business owners, family offices, and financial planners. Based in Morristown, New Jersey, the Group provides services throughout the United States.
Steven is the author of many books, including: The Grantor Trust Answer Book (2018 CCH); The Adviser’s Guide to Financial and Estate Planning(AICPA 2019); Federal Fiduciary Income Taxation (Foxmoor 2019); and Federal Estate and Gift Tax (Foxmoor 2016). He is also a co-author with Richard Oshins, Esq. of The Anatomy of the Perfect Modern Trust, Estate Planning Magazine January and February 2016.
In conjunction with numerous tax-planning lectures he has delivered for the National Law Foundation, Steven has prepared extensive lecture materials on the following subjects: planning for an aging population, business entities, preparing the audit-proof federal estate tax return, business acquisitions, representing buyers and sellers in sale of a business, dynasty trusts, planning with intentionally defective grantor trusts, estate planning, S corporations, divorce, and many others.
Steven has delivered hundreds of lectures to thousands of attendees in live venues and via webinars throughout the United States on tax, business, and estate planning topics on behalf of numerous organizations, including Western CPE, the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, CCH, National Law Foundation, AICPA, Yale School of Management, University of Chicago Business School, the National Society of Accountants, Cohn-Reznick, Foxmoor Education, many state CPA societies and estate planning councils, and on behalf of private companies.
He’s presently serving as an adjunct professor of law in the graduate tax program (LLM) of the University of Alabama School of Law, and he has served as an adjunct professor of law at Seton Hall University and Rutgers University law schools.
Steven holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa); a juris doctor from Harvard Law School; and an LLM in taxation from New York University Law School.
Non-Member Price $282.00
Member Price $245.00