Gifts and Gift Giving
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6 Key Issues about Gifts to Children and Grandchildren
One of the questions I receive most frequently from Retirement Watch subscribers is how to make estate planning gifts. Let’s take a look at the issues that recur among many readers. Gifts to family members are one of the staples of estate planning. But the tax law has changed, and that’s altered the role of […]
5 Ways to Enhance Your Legacy with Beneficiary Bequests and Charitable Gifts and Trusts
Legacy planning can be a powerful part of your estate plan. Not all gifts are created equal, especially charitable gifts. You can leverage the benefits of your gifts, enhancing the financial security of yourself and your heirs while being philanthropic. Estate planners often refer to these strategies as planned gifts or planned giving. Often, gifts […]
Avoiding Big Mistakes with Gifts
Many people make mistakes in their gift giving. It’s not their fault. The rules on estate planning gifts are tricky. By learning the tricks, you can increase the after-tax wealth available to you and your loved ones. Reducing federal estate taxes no longer is the main motivation most of us have for making gifts, because […]
Shrewd Ways fro Charitable Giving This Year and Beyond
Don’t wait until December to plan your charitable giving. Don’t do what can be even worse: Wait to make charitable gifts, especially cash gifts, through your estate. When you take either or both of those widely followed actions, you could be leaving a lot of money on the table. That money could have benefitted you, your […]
Starting the New Year with Good Estate Planning Gift Giving Strategy
Most people wait until late in the year to focus on the gift giving that’s part of their financial and Estate Planning. It’s smarter and shrewder to think about their estate planning giving strategies early in the year and execute gifts through the year to maximize the benefits. The federal estate tax used to drive […]
Payoffs from Making Charitable Gifts Now
Estate planning often has multiple goals, especially in this era when most people don’t have to worry about federal estate taxes. Estate planning should be coordinated with your income tax planning and your income needs as well as your charitable gift giving plans. These needs and goals should be included in your estate planning along […]
Making Smarter Estate Planning Gifts to Family Members
Giving gifts isn’t as easy as one might think. It’s not easy, that is, if you want to maximize the value and impact of your gifts. Watching every gift is the tax man, looking to take a piece of it. Even if your estate isn’t likely to be taxable, you should be looking for ways […]
Wise Estate Planning Ways to Make Family Gifts
We’re entering the traditional gift-giving season. The tax rules still are important. Too many people believe that with the estate tax exemption set at $5 million per person, they don’t need to worry about shrewd, tax-wise ways to give wealth. (The exemption is indexed for inflation; it is $5.25 million in 2013.) They couldn’t be […]
