This webinar will explain how making the election under IRC Section 645 can significantly reduce the tax filing burden for practitioners and lower beneficiaries tax obligations. Read More

This webinar will discuss common basis issues encountered by trust and estate advisers, including planning for volatile markets and the flux of estate taxation rules. Our veteran estate advisers will explain how to structure adaptable trusts, remove appreciated assets from trusts, determine and subs... Read More

This webinar will explain why disclaimers are powerful, tax-saving estate planning tools considering the constant flux of estate planning rules. Our panel of estate and trust veterans will discuss how disclaimers are used to incorporate flexibility in post-mortem planning for beneficiaries. Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and counsel with a drill down into the rules and practices covering the inclusion of capital gains in distributable net income (DNI) for trusts and estates. The panel will review the requirements within trust documents to allow treating capital gains as DNI and... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a thorough and practical guide to identifying and remedying gift tax reporting errors on IRS Form 709. The panel will discuss common and complex gift tax mistakes, including incorrect reporting of gift splitting and incorrect G... Read More

This webinar will discuss the hurdles to deduct charitable contributions on estate and trust returns. Our panel of trust and estate experts will detail the considerations surrounding these deductions, including examining the relative provisions in the trust documents and wills, contributing apprecia... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a more in-depth exploration of the fiduciary income calculations and determinations contained in the Uniform Principal and Income Act (UPIA). The panel will detail how to apply UPIA provisions to differentiate between corpus an... Read More

This webinar will provide tax preparers with detailed guidance on preparing Form 5227, Split-Interest Trust Information Return. The panel will address common mistakes and traps for preparers to avoid and will provide detailed guidance on the "four-tier rules," and discuss UBTI and Chapter 42 Excise... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a comprehensive guide to navigating the complexities of calculating fiduciary accounting income (FAI) for trusts and estates. The panel will detail how to interpret essential trust and estate provisions to apply to FAI calculat... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers with a thorough and practical guide to reporting trust capital gains income on Schedule D of Form 1041. The panel will demonstrate calculating and allocating capital gains and losses to beneficiaries, explain the distributable net income (DNI) rules of IRC 643(... Read More

This webinar will discuss the strategies for and advantages of transferring closely held business interests during the current economic climate for advisers and tax practitioners working with these entities and owners. Read More

This webinar will detail the caveats and considerations of state estate and inheritance taxes payable in many states. Our panel of estate planning experts will outline specific strategies to lower these taxes, including steps to change a taxpayer's domicile. Read More

This webinar will guide practitioners through reporting of more complicated gifts, including examples of how gratuitous transfers made under common estate planning strategies should be reported and disclosed on Form 709. Our expert panel will discuss in detail the reporting of gifting to GRATs, Crum... Read More

This webinar will explore the U.S. tax compliance and accounting issues arising from foreign trust income. The panel will discuss specific U.S. tax planning issues for foreign trusts that tax advisers and tax counsel should understand. Read More

This webinar will explore the benefits of Crummey trusts, Crummey powers, notification requirements, and possibly the best use of these powers--the irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT). Read More

In this webinar, our panel of estate experts will describe the fundamentals of the complex federal generation-skipping transfer tax in simple and clear terms. They will also talk about GST planning opportunities, particularly those that should be implemented prior to the reduction in the generation-... Read More

This webinar will provide fiduciary tax advisers and compliance professionals with a practical guide to the deduction structure for Form 1041 under the latest tax reform. The panel will outline the specific changes that tax reform makes to fiduciary deductions, detail the impact of income items taxa... Read More

This webinar will review certain estate and gift planning strategies that all advisers should be discussing with their clients to take advantage of the current market decline and low interest rates. Read More

This webinar will explain the benefits and caveats of holding community property for tax practitioners and advisers working with mobile clients. The panel will discuss identifying community property and helping clients retain or acquire community property status, when beneficial, along with the inco... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and professionals with a thorough and practical guide into the calculation challenges of allocating distributable net income (DNI) for complex trusts with income or beneficiaries in multiple states. The panel will focus on tax reporting of trust income from ass... Read More

This webinar will identify and explain the many required foreign reporting obligations, best practices for avoiding penalties, and how to resolve past noncompliance for trusts and estates. This webinar is for tax preparers, fiduciaries, and other professionals working with trusts and estates. Read More

This webinar will provide insight to tax professionals in dealing with family-owned entities (usually limited partnerships or LLCs) to avoid tax pitfalls and explain new considerations for organizing (and re-organizing) these entities in light of recent court cases as well as tax reform. Read More

This webinar will explore often overlooked opportunities to implement now to help clients mitigate income and transfer taxes in 2020 and future years. Our speaker will discuss using strategic trusts, IRC Sec. 831b Captives, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and other tax-saving techniques in l... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals and fiduciary advisers with a practical guide to the rules governing trust accounting income and tax treatment of partnership share assets held by trusts. The panel will discuss the specific challenges that partnership holdings present in calculating FAI,... Read More

This webinar will explain the fundamentals of gift tax for advisers new to Form 709, and provide a review for seasoned professionals wanting to brush up on the specifics of gift transfers. Our panel of experts will explain when gift tax returns should be filed, skip versus non-skip persons, and the... Read More

This webinar will discuss necessary considerations when naming the beneficiaries of IRAs, as well as how to determine applicable beneficiaries, distribution periods, and amounts for RMDs for inherited retirement accounts. The panelist will cover spousal beneficiaries, non-spousal beneficiaries, cond... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers with a thorough and comprehensive guide to the gift and generation skipping tax reporting challenges of allocating GST transfer taxes in circumstances involving the use of GRATs, IDGTs, ILITs, and similar trusts. Our nationally known speaker will discuss how to... Read More

This webinar will provide guidance on family business succession for advisers and professionals working with small business owners. All business owners should have a succession plan in place whether the business is staying in the family or being sold to outsiders. This webinar will cover gifting, se... Read More

With the federal gift tax exemption at an all-time high of $11.4 million, now is the time to give clients valuable advice about how to leverage their heightened gift tax exemption. This webinar will take a fresh look at gifting strategies that will help clients maximize use of their gift tax exempti... Read More

This webinar will provide professionals who advise and prepare returns for trusts updated information on trusts' situs in light of the Kaestner decision. Our experts will cover the criteria states use to tax trusts and trust beneficiaries, steps to relocate a trust, and when it is best to do so. Read More

This webinar will guide advisers filing gift and estate returns in understanding how best to prepare for and handle IRS audits of Forms 706 and 709. Our expert will address issues to expect, when appraisals are necessary, dealing with unreported gifts, and the current state of the IRS initiative in... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a comprehensive and practical guide to the reporting mechanics of trust decanting transactions. The panel will discuss when decanting results in a non-reporting event and offer useful tools for determining when decanting causes... Read More

This webinar will address tax planning strategies for nonresident aliens. Although the $11,400,000 unified credit is at an all-time high, the exemption for nonresidents remains at $60,000. This significant difference makes understanding the domicile of a taxpayer a critical determination. Our panel... Read More

This webinar will provide fiduciary tax advisers and compliance professionals with a critical first look at the practical impact of the tax reform law on trust and estate tax reporting. The panel will detail the specific changes the new law makes to fiduciary deductions, outline the way that distrib... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a thorough and practical guide for reporting foreign trusts with U.S. owners or other U.S. nexus on Form 1040NR. The panel will detail the events and transactions that require reporting, discuss filing obligations for owners an... Read More

This webinar will explain the numerous elections available when preparing gift, estate and trust returns. Some elections are easily made but critical (gift-splitting, choice of year, Section 663(b)). Other elections require much more thought and expertise (GST allocation, QTIP election, Section 645)... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals and advisers with a practical guide into various states' rules governing the income tax treatment of nonresident trusts with multistate income or beneficiary connections. The panel will address state taxation of trusts in light of the Supreme Court's grant... Read More

This webinar will explain creative grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT) strategies to maximize the amount passing to beneficiaries without paying transfer tax. The panel will discuss determining if a GRAT would benefit you or your client, specific strategies to optimize the GRAT(s) and under what c... Read More

This webinar will provide fiduciary tax advisers and compliance professionals with a practical guide to the deduction structure for Form 1041 under the latest tax reform. The panel will outline the specific changes that recent tax reform makes to fiduciary deductions, detail the impact of income ite... Read More

This webinar will explain the new tax law's impact on existing estate plans. The panel will describe the potential dangers of old estate planning techniques and offer suggestions for minimizing overall income and estate taxes paid in light of the recent tax overhaul. Read More

This webinar will provide fiduciary tax advisers with a practical guide to the tax compliance for reporting fractional interest ownership and transfers on estate and trust tax returns. The panel will outline how to identify fractional interest transfers in trust documents, make the allocations and v... Read More

This webinar will provide fiduciaries and their tax advisers with a thorough and practical guide to year-end charitable planning in the wake of the 2017 tax overhaul. The panel will detail which charitable vehicles provide maximum tax savings after tax reform law, focusing on qualified charitable di... Read More

This webinar will prepare fiduciaries and tax advisers with a practical guide to navigating the challenges of estate and transfer tax apportionment. The panel will discuss how to interpret estate planning documents in instances where the apportionment is unclear, as well as understanding the proper... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers with a practical guide to meeting the unique challenges of reporting the trust income of an SNT on Form 1041. The panel will give you tools to differentiate between types of SNTs and describe the specific tax filing requirements of a QDT versus a first-party tr... Read More

This webinar will provide fiduciary tax advisers and compliance professionals with the tools needed to navigate the unique challenges in reconciling and completing Form K-1 for estate and trust beneficiaries. The panel will discuss income classification and allocation of the trust's income distribut... Read More

This webinar will provide estate planners and fiduciary advisers with a practical guide to navigating "the throwback tax" on distributions from foreign trusts to U.S. beneficiaries. The panel will define undistributed net income (UNI), detail the reclassification process, and offer specifics on avoi... Read More

This webinar will provide fiduciary tax advisers and compliance professionals with a practical guide to the new deduction structure for Form 1041 under the new tax law. The panel will outline the specific changes the new law makes to fiduciary deductions, detail the impact of income items newly taxa... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals and advisers with a practical guide into various states' rules governing the income tax treatment of nonresident trusts with multistate income or beneficiary connections. The panel will address critical topics relevant to resident and nonresident trusts, w... Read More

This webinar will give trust tax advisers and fiduciaries a thorough guide to recognizing and reporting unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) generated by assets held in trusts and estates, including inherited retirement plans. The webinar will focus on the standards and guidelines for determinin... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and professionals with a deep dive into calculating distributable net income (DNI) for complex trusts. The panel will delineate between trust accounting income and taxable income and focus on tax reporting of trust income from assets, such as partnership intere... Read More

This webinar will provide estate and trust tax advisers and compliance professionals with a thorough and practical guide to the tax compliance issues that fiduciaries face before making or allocating U.S. domestic trust or estate distributions to foreign beneficiaries. The panel will explain how to... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers to trusts and fiduciaries with detailed practical guidance for completing IRS Form 1041-A, U.S. Information Return Trust Accumulation of Charitable Amounts. The panel will discuss the intersection between Form 5227 and 1041-A, detail trusts that are required to... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers with guidance on calculating trust accumulation distributions for beneficiaries of foreign trusts. The panel will detail the computations required to complete Schedule J of Form 1041. The panel will discuss the interdependence between Schedule J and the reporti... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and professionals with a deep dive into the difficult task of calculating distributable net income (DNI) for complex trusts. The panel will delineate the differences between trust accounting income and taxable income and focus on tax reporting of trust income f... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals with a deep dive into the determination of "material participation" (MP) regarding trusts and estates in applying passive activity rules. The panel will analyze the tax court's groundbreaking holding in Aragona Trust v. Comm'r (2014) and offer perspectives... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers to fiduciaries with detailed and practical guidance on the tax reporting complexities of trusts designated as IRA beneficiaries. The panel will thoroughly discuss the rules for measuring life expectancy for purposes of required minimum distributions (RMDs) and... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a practical, beyond the basics guide to the Section 2513 "gift-splitting rules." The panel will offer practical and detailed guidance on applying the rules to client situations involving GRATs, Crummey Trusts, and other vehicle... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a thorough and practical exploration of the GST exemption allocation rules in IRC Section 2632. The panel will take a line-by-line approach to the Code provisions, discussing default treatment and going in depth into the electi... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals who advise fiduciaries in trust and estate matters with a thorough and practical guide to reporting pecuniary property-in-kind distributions from trusts and estates on Form 1041. The panel will discuss proper reporting for property substitutions to meet pe... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers with a comprehensive and practical guide to generation skipping transfer (GST) election strategies and the tax reporting mechanics of calculating GST taxes. The panel will offer specific guidance on reporting GSTs under various transfer scenarios. The panel wil... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and professionals with a deep dive into the often difficult task of calculating distributable net income (DNI) for complex trusts. The panel will delineate the difference between trust accounting income and taxable income and focus on tax reporting of trust inc... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers and compliance professionals with a comprehensive and practical guide to the reporting mechanics of trust decanting transactions. The panel will discuss when a decanting results in a non-reporting event, and offer useful tools for determining when a decanting c... Read More

This webinar will provide tax preparers and advisers with a comprehensive and practical guide to the planning and reporting issues in the imposition of IRC Section 1411 net investment income tax (NIIT) on trusts and estates. The panel will discuss how to calculate NIIT for reporting on a Form 1041 I... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals with a deep dive into the determination of "material participation" (MP) as the concepts apply to trusts and estates in the application of passive activity rules. The panel will analyze the tax court's groundbreaking holding in Aragona Trust v. Comm'r and... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals with a deep and comprehensive examination of the IRC Section 691 Income in Respect of Decedents (IRD) rules. I will discuss what types of income must be included in IRD, including how to allocate receivables to IRD, and avoiding double-tax on IRD by approp... Read More

This webinar will provide tax preparers with detailed guidance on preparing Form 5227, Split Interest Trust Information Return. The panel will address common mistakes and traps for preparers to avoid, and will provide detailed guidance on the "four-tier rules," as well as discuss UBTI and Chapter 42... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers with a thorough and comprehensive guide to the gift and generation skipping tax reporting challenges of allocating GST transfer taxes in circumstances involving the use of GRATs, IDGTs, ILITs and similar trusts. The panel will discuss how to allocate exemption... Read More

This webinar will provide tax professionals with a detailed review of the advantages and applications of intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), compliance with required tax forms for these entities, and tax planning approaches that utilize IDGTs. Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisers with a thorough and comprehensive guide to the computation and reporting of the deceased spouse's unused exemption (DSUE), which is used to calculate the applicable exclusion amount for the surviving spouse when portability has been elected. The panel will defi... Read More

This webinar will provide tax advisors and return preparers with a review of a full range of compliance issues and decisions that arise in completing federal Form 706. The panel will outline their approaches for dealing with the difficult questions tax preparers will face. Read More

This webinar will prepare tax advisors and counsel to understand when a trust or estate's fees are deductible or subject to the 2% floor for itemized deductions. New regulations under Sect. 67(e) provide rules, which are not intuitive, governing whether various expenses paid by estates and trusts ar... Read More

This webinar will improve return preparers' familiarity with preparing Form 1041, such as calculating distributable net income, allocating income between the trust and beneficiaries, and understanding reporting rules for revocable and irrevocable trusts. Read More