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Critical Tax and Estate Planning Issues FLEXCAST

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2.0 Credits

Member Price $98.00

Non-Member Price $113.00

Overview

This course will address concerns that in the tax and estate planning “rush” of 2020 and 2021, did we get everything correct? The IRS has successfully attacked indirect gifts, improperly valued GRATs and poorly described transfers of business interests. What should we be checking? What should we be doing in light of the Proposed Secure Act Regulations? Is it time to start thinking about planning for the sunset of the 2017 Act at the end of 2025 -or possible earlier tax law changes? We will address planning techniques to recommend now, including properly using Gifting, Flexible Trust Planning, Portability, SLATs, Powers of Appointment and more.

Highlights

Anti-Clawback Rules 20.2010. Biden 2023 Budget Plan. The Spousal Lifetime Access Trust. The Charitable Lead Trust.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs and other tax professionals.

Objectives

Gain an appreciation of the tax and estate planning techniques that are available today that may be eliminated by law changes. Understand the coming sunset of the 2017 Act, and what can be done now to take advantage of current planning opportunities. Review the sometimes complex options that clients need to address in their tax and estate planning decisions.

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.

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Non-Member Price $113.00

Member Price $98.00