Estate planning is a vital component of financial management, ensuring that your assets are protected, your wishes are honored, and your loved ones are taken care of when you can no...
Trusts are powerful financial tools that enable individuals to manage and distribute their assets according to their wishes while potentially minimizing estate taxes and probate processes....
Posted by Jim McClaflin, EA, NTPI Fellow, CTRC on 09/13/2023
A trust is a lawful entity that holds assets and money for future distribution or administration. For example, you can create trust for your children's college education by setting...
Posted by Rosovich & Associates, Inc. on 01/26/2023
The real estate planning world, the financial planning world, and parliamentarians considered several significant estates and gift tax changes at the end of 2021. The Biden administration...
Posted by Jim McClaflin, EA, NTPI Fellow, CTRC on 05/10/2022
Estate and Trust are the two main legal structures for transferring assets to your heirs and beneficiaries. Each works in different critical ways. Estates make a single transfer of...
Posted by Taxes Made EZ Inc on 12/27/2021
For federal tax purposes, inheritance is not classified as income, no matter what you inherited – cash, property, or investment. However, whatever you earn on such an inherited...
Posted by Pat Raskob on 07/06/2021
The grantor, which can also be called the creator, settlor, trust maker, or trustor, is the party who forms the trust. For married couples, if the trust was established jointly, they...
Taxation of trust fund incomeDeath and taxes are two things that you cannot avoid in life. While there are ways to minimize your tax participation, you certainly can't get rid...
Before leaving the United States, all foreigners (except those listed below) must obtain a "Certificate of Compliance" from the United States Internal Revenue Service. This...