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  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    June 2023 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split-Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    IRS Data Book Released for Fiscal Year 2022
     
    PLR 2023150002
     
    Wrzesinkski v. United States, No. 2:22-cv-03568, (E.D. Pa. Mar 7, 2023)
     
    McGuire v. Hall (In re Gregory Hall Tr.), Nos. 361528, 362467, 2023 Mich. App. LEXIS 1866 (ct. app. Mar. 16, 2023)

    on June 2023

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    May 2023 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split-Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    IRS Rules that Assets in Irrevocable Grantor Trusts Do Not Receive Basis Step-Up at Death
     
    Florida Court Rules that Non-Homestead Property Transferred to Entity May be Reassessed
     
    IRS Releases Strategic Operating Plan

    on May 2023

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    April Interest Rates for GRATS, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split-Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    Bittner v. United States, 598 U.S. ___ (2023)
     
    2023 Greenbook Proposals – As Relevant to Transfer Tax, Trusts and Valuation
     
    In re the Trust of Eva Marie Hanson Living Trust dated December 11, 1995 (Minn. Ct. App. Jan. 30, 2023)
     
    Vouk v. Chapman, 521 P.3d 712 (Idaho 2022)

    on April 2023

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    March 2023 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    In re Pasquale Storto, Jr. Trust, No. 360134, Mich. App. Lexis 268 (Jan. 12, 2023)
     
    In re Dissolution of Doehler Dry Ingredient Solutions, LLC, C.A. No. 2022-03540-LWW (Sept. 15, 2022)
     
    In re Estate of Raymond Joseph Frisbie, unpublished per curiam Mich. App. opinion 357831 (Nov. 17, 2022)

    on March 2023

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    February 2023 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    SECURE Act 2.0
     
    Randle v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company, 2022 Cal. App. LEXIS 918 (Ct. App. Nov. 7, 2022)
     
    In re Estate of Wallace, unpublished per curiam Mich. App. opinion 357441
     
    Rogers v. Rogers, 47 Fla. L. Weekly d2466 (2d DCA 2022)
     
    United States v. Shant Hovnanian et al., No. 3:18-cv-15099 (27 December 2022)

    on February 2023

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    January 2023 AFRs and 7520 Rate
     
    New York Estate Tax – 2023 Basic Exclusion Amount
     
    Massachusetts Millionaires Tax
     
    Alejandro J. Rojas et al. v. Commissioner, No. 7453-19, T.C. Memo. 2022-77 (July 18, 2022)
     
    Jennifer Joy Fields et al. v. Commissioner, No. 2925-20S, T.C. Summary Op. 2022-22 (November 10, 2022)
     
    Estate of William E. DeMuth, Jr. v. Commissioner, No. 18724-19, T.C. Memo. 2022-72 (July 12, 2022)
     
    Betty Amos v. Commissioner, No. 4331-18, T.C. Memo. 2022-109 (Nov. 10, 2022)
     
    PLR 202247004
     
    Proposed Treasury Regulations – REG-106134-22, Syndicated Conservation Easement Transactions as Listed Transactions (Dec. 6, 2022)
     
    U.S. Treasury Department, 2022-2023 Priority Guidance Plan (Nov. 4, 2022)
     
    Matter of Walls, No. 2021-1074/A, 2022 NY Slip Op 51165(U) (Monroe Cty. Surr. Ct., Nov. 29, 2022)

    on January 2023

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    December 2022 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    Inflation Adjustments for 2023
     
    FinCEN – Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirement
     
    Matter of Estate of Manchester, 172 N.Y.S. 3d 918 (Sur. Erie Aug. 18, 2022)
     
    Heinrich C. Schweizer v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2022-102
     
    Pinkert v. Schwab Charitable Fund, 130 AFTR 2d 2022-5986

    on December 2022

  • Newsletter

    Personal Planning Strategies

    Estate, Gift and GST Tax Update
    What This Means for Your Current Will, Revocable Trust and Estate Plan
     
    Gift Tax Update
    Exploit the Gift Tax Annual Exclusion Amount
     
    2022 Gift Tax Returns
     
    New York Basic Exclusion Amount to Increase in 2023
     
    Connecticut Estate Planning Update
     
    New Jersey Estate Tax Was Eliminated on January 1, 2018
     
    Make Sure That You Take Your IRA Required Minimum Distributions by December 31, 2022
     
    Understanding the Inflation Adjustments to the Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Exemption Amounts

    on November 2022

  • Press Release

    2022 Proskauer Annual Review and Outlook for Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Funds

    on November 8, 2022

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    October 2022 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    Federal Estate, Gift and GST Tax Exemption to increase by $860,000 in 2023
     
    Florida Legislation Update
     
    Donoghue v. Smith, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 76071
     
    Yost v. Carroll, DC IL, 130 AFTR 2d ¶2022-5086
     
    In re Marriage of Rene Simon Cruz and Rena Dillon Cruz (Cal. Sup. Ct. 2022)

    on October 2022