You open an individual retirement account known as an inherited IRA on inheriting a tax-advantaged retirement plan like an IRA or 401(k). The heir needs to transfer such assets from...
Posted by Jim McClaflin, EA, NTPI Fellow on 07/24/2021
How are trusts taxed?What do you do when you want to set up funds for your children, grandchildren, or even yourself for a medical emergency, but you don't know how to go about...
Posted by Dennis Jao on 07/16/2021
In the past, the rules for family succession planning have remained relatively the same. Previously, when the original owner of an asset or property dies, the asset is passed to an...
Posted by Unifirst Financial & Tax Consultants on 07/16/2021
The importance of wealth preservation strategies increases with the increasing number of inventory and possession cases. Unfortunately, most people don't realize that their home...
Posted by The TaxAdvocate Group, LLC on 05/18/2021
A pension in any form, either in the form of a lump sum or an annuity (sometimes called a retirement pension) or a combination of both, is a valuable and increasingly rare advantage....
Posted by The TaxAdvocate Group, LLC on 04/20/2021
Charities are looking for more help today than ever before. If you are planning to donate to charity now or at any time of the year, you have various options. While you can simply...
Posted by Unifirst Financial & Tax Consultants on 04/14/2021
One of the main advantages of life insurance is that payment to beneficiaries is free. Because life insurance benefits in the event of death can run into the millions of dollars, it's...
Posted by Jim McClaflin, EA, NTPI Fellow on 03/29/2021
The beneficiaries of a trust generally pay tax on the distributions they receive from the trust income, then the trust pays for the tax itself. However, these beneficiaries are not...
Ideally, trust beneficiaries need to pay taxes on the distributions they get from the income from a trust and not the tax coming from the trust. Although, the beneficiary need not...
Posted by Tiffany Gaskin on 02/05/2021
