Estate planning attorneys Cecil Smith and Carol Gonnella have written an informative article about the coming impact of federal estate tax laws next year and the year after. The article starts:
“The estate tax laws are in a state of flux, and no one is sure what Congress will do in the near future. This article is about the laws today, and the importance of planning now rather than waiting until Congress may … or may not … act. It addresses tax liability in a broad sense, and does not take into account the impact of state death taxes, if any, or the implementation of advanced estate planning strategies such as LLCs, QPRTs, BERTs, ILITs, GRATs, Charitable Gifts, etc, to not only creditor protect assets during life, but to reduce or eliminate the estate tax bite upon death. . . . There are three ways to reduce (or even eliminate) federal estate taxes just by using Internal Revenue Code exclusions and/or exemptions that are available to everyone
- The Unlimited Marital Deduction . . . .
- The Basic Exclusion Amount . . . .
- Portability . . . . “
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