Posts Categorized: Estate Tax

You have probably read that President Obama submitted his final budget to Congress recently and that it was greeted by Republicans as ‘dead on arrival.’ We don’t want to get into a political discussion here but it should be noted that there are several proposals that have drawn wide bipartisan support and could resurface as… Read More »

A few weeks ago, The National Law Review ran a great explanation of what they call “the new paradigm” in estate planning. For many years, avoiding the federal estate tax — or at least minimizing one’s burden under the estate tax — was paramount among the estate planner’s goals. These days, it’s not so important…. Read More »