Category: Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts

Pre-Exit Planning Video 5-GRAT Example, Timing of planning

Please join Wayne M. Zell, Esq. for this 5th of nine videos of Episode 4: Planning the Exit, which has an example of pre-transaction planning using a GRAT, and focuses…

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Navigating Rough Waters Video 3-Building Processes for Management Succession

Please join Wayne M. Zell, Esq. for this 3rd of eight videos of Episode 3: Navigating Rough Waters, which discusses the need for building a process to anticipate unanticipated events…

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Tax Bill-Estate and Gift Tax Changes

Taxpayers will have an $11,200,000 each for estate, gift tax, and generation-skipping tax exemption beginning January 1, 2018, which will rise with the Consumer Price Index each year thereafter. There were no…

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Estate Planning for Business Owners, Q&A session, pt. 7/7

Please join Wayne M. Zell, Esq., for this video presentation of his Estate Planning Bootcamp for Financial Advisors, Session 4, part 7 of 7. This video contains a lively question and…

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Estate Planning for Business Owners, GRATs, ILITs and Non-Business Assets, pt. 6/7

Please join Wayne M. Zell, Esq., for this video presentation of his Estate Planning Bootcamp for Financial Advisors, Session 4, part 6 of 7. This video focuses on the use of…

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Legislation Introduced to Prevent Enactment of Valuation Rules

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) reintroduced legislation to prevent the IRS from enacting its highly controversial estate valuation discount proposed regulations introduced in August 2016. The…

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Estate Planning Alert-Valuation Discounts for Family Entities to Disappear after 2016

On August 4, the Treasury Department issued Proposed Regulations under §2704 of the Internal Revenue Code that eliminate almost all valuation discounts for family-owned businesses and investment entities. This will…

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Short-term GRATs Provide Long-term Relief

“What’s a GRAT?”, you may ask.  A grantor retained annuity trust, or GRAT for short, is a popular estate planning tool that assists in sheltering appreciating assets from the burdens…

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