This is a webcast of the live New York session.Why you should attend
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “2012 Tax Act”), which was enacted on January 2, 2013, made “permanent” many of the changes of the federal transfer tax system that were part of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 and that were scheduled to expire at the end of 2012. In addition, the 2012 Tax Act made significant federal income tax changes. Further, President Obama’s budget for the government’s fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, contains additional major proposals for transfer tax and income tax changes.
The program will review the transfer tax and income tax aspects of the 2012 Tax Act, the additional income tax and transfer tax changes that may occur, how you can use this information to your clients’ maximum advantage, and valuable estate planning techniques that are not foreclosed by the 2012 Tax Act. Moreover, the program will review other recent developments regarding charitable and non-charitable estate, trust and transfer tax planning.
What you will learn
- A review of the transfer tax changes in the 2012 Tax Act
- A review of the Administration’s current transfer tax and income tax proposals
- Drafting estate planning documents to comply with and take advantage of the 2012 Tax Act
- Marital deduction planning – portability is “permanent”
- Generation-skipping transfer tax planning under the 2012 Tax Act
- Post-death elections and planning under the 2012 Tax Act
- State transfer tax consequences of the 2012 Tax Act
- FLPs and LLCs – valuations and discounts
- An update on recent developments in all other areas of estate, trust and transfer tax planning
- Charitable planning in a low interest rate environment
- Ethical concerns in estate planning
Who should attend
Attorneys and other professionals who specialize in estate planning and life insurance and transfer tax planning, including accountants, financial planners, trust officers, nonprofit development professionals and anyone else whose practice requires a solid understanding of estate planning.
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All times are E.D.T.
Day One: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)
Morning Session: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (E.D.T.)
9:00 Recent Developments in Estate Planning and Federal Taxation
- Estate planning under the 2012 federal Tax Act
- Prospects for further federal transfer tax legislation
- State transfer taxation issues
- New proposed alternate valuation date rules
- IRS guidance regarding protective estate tax refund claims under Code Section 2053
- IRS reviews transfer tax aspects of “decanting” of trusts
- Obamacare
- Presidential budget proposals for 2014
Sanford J. Schlesinger
10:15 Sophisticated Planning Techniques
- Post-ATRA planning with the $5 million applicable exclusion amount
- How the Obama administration’s fiscal year 2014 proposals would affect transfer taxes and key planning techniques such as GRATs (grantor retained annuity trusts) and sales to defective grantor trusts
- Working with GRATs and sales to defective grantor trusts – pros and cons
- CLATs (charitable lead annuity trusts) – do they make sense?
- Planning with residences – QPRTs (qualified personal residence trusts) and the practical: harmonizing family ownership of the vacation home
- Intra-family loans
Blanche Lark Christerson
11:15 Networking Break
11:30 Update on Elder Law, Especially Medicare and Medicaid
- Elder law planning for single individuals and married couples
- Long-term care insurance, including tax considerations
- Protecting the family home
- Use of trusts in elder law and special needs planning
- Retirement accounts and long-term care planning
- Medicare: what’s covered? What’s not?
Bernard A. Krooks
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session: 1:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)
1:45 Estate Planning with Real Estate
- Drafting and structuring entity agreements
- Special valuation considerations for investment real estate
- Planning to maximize income tax basis step-up and coping with negative capital
- Liquidity concerns and payment of estate taxes
- Special consideration for the foreign investor
- Pros and cons of alternative planning techniques
Stephen M. Breitstone
2:45 Planning with Retirement Benefits
- Income taxation of retirement benefits
- Net unrealized appreciation
- Rollovers
- Required minimum distribution update
- QTIPs for death benefits
- Charitable contributions
- Roth IRAs
Stephen J. Krass
3:45 Networking Break
4:00 Ethical Considerations
- Conflicts – who is your client?
- Retainer agreements
- Representing fiduciaries
Hon. John M. Czygier, Jr.
5:00 Adjourn
Day Two: 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. (E.D.T.)
Morning Session: 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (E.D.T.)
9:00 Online Life After Death
- What are digital assets, where are they and who can access them?
- Protecting and disclosing usernames and passwords
- Preventing disclosure of your digital secrets, writings, photos, and social network data
- What do websites do with a user’s account after death?
- Executor’s responsibilities for decedent’s digital assets
- Estate planning for disposing of digital assets
- Digital property belonging to employer
- Afterlife companies – are they worth it?
Donald A. Hamburg
10:00 Charitable Planning Tax Strategies
- Savvy planning under the 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act
- Avoiding bad heir days and near-death tax experiences
- Gathering windfalls and avoiding pitfalls
Conrad Teitell
11:00 Networking Break
11:15 Planning for Post-Death Decisions
- State of domicile can have a wide range of consequences to the estate
- Put options and other rights (options) under buy-sell and other agreements
- Extension of time to pay estate tax under 6161 for reasonable cause
- Estate tax deferral 6166
- Graegin loans – the new paradigm with portability
- Planning gain or loss on distributions
- Disclaimers – a key tax and dispositive factor
- Marital deduction can be the subject of a host of elections or elective actions by the executor or trustees
- Claims and liabilities can be impacted by the executor’s actions
Martin M. Shenkman
12:15 Lunch
Afternoon Session: 1:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. (E.D.T.)
1:30 Estate Planning for Domestic Partners, Same-Sex Spouses and Non-Traditional Families
- Focus on prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
- Recent developments affecting domestic partners, same-sex spouses and alternative families
- Estate planning for non-traditional families
- Domestic partnership agreements and special issues regarding prenuptial agreements for same-sex spouses
- Issues arising from joint ownership arrangements
- Gifts
- Useful estate planning instruments for domestic partners
Erica Bell, Lindsay H. Brown, Lisa Ayn Padilla
2:30 Marital Deduction Planning with an Emphasis on the Pros and Cons of Portability
- Comparison of portability with credit shelter trust
- Making the portability election
- Planning with portability
- Effect of portability
- Subsequent remarriage or divorce of surviving spouse
- GST issues
- Impact on state wealth transfer taxes
- Use by surviving spouse of deceased spousal unused exclusion amount (“DSUEA”)
- Statute of limitations concerns
- Nonresidents
Sanford J. Schlesinger, Yoshimi O. Smith
3:30 Networking Break
3:45 Estate Planning for Collectibles
- Donating works of art
- Valuation of works of art – new appraisal rules
- Transfer of works of art to family members
- New planning techniques for collectibles
Ralph E. Lerner
4:45 Adjourn
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