Grantor Trust: The Rules and the Planning Tools FLEXCAST
Available Until
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Member Price $98.00
Non-Member Price $113.00
Overview
This course will describe how grantor trusts came about, all of the rules used to determine if a trust is or is not a grantor trust and how to determine grantor trust status. We will address multiple issues of planning with grantor trusts - from living trusts for many clients to sophisticated planning with Grantor Retained Interest Trusts (GRATs) and Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts (IDGTs). The course will address the critical planning issues to be addressed in the coming months.
Highlights
What Makes a Trust a Grantor Trust. Grantor Trust Definitions and Rules. Advantages of a Grantor Trust. Qualified Personal Residence Trust. Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs, financial professionals, enrolled agents and attorneys.
Objectives
Gain an understanding of the grantor trust rules and how they determine how a person’s income will be taxed and how their estate tax issues must be considered. Address a wide variety of tax planning techniques unique to the grantor trust. Learn how these techniques work and when best to use them.
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 $113.00
Member Price $98.00