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October 2010

Tax Matters with Fred (VIDEO)

By Tax Law

 

Fred: I bring to Bach Elder Law my expertise in tax matters. Frequently our clients come into the office with tax problems. Some of them haven’t filed returns for a number of years, some of them are engaged in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, some of our wealthier clients need tax planning on estate issues which can become very complicated, particularly now at this time where there is great uncertainty in the estate tax law. Congress failed to renew our estate tax law and it went out of business on December 31, 2009. Most tax practitioners, myself included, believe that when the Congress gets to it, it will reinstate the federal tax law in substantially the same form that existed as of December 31, 2009. This means that persons with estates of less than 3.5 million dollars, or 7 million dollars between a husband and wife, need not be concerned with federal estate taxes.

Succession Planning with Fred (VIDEO)

By Estate Planning, Tax Law

 

Fred: In the tax and business areas, I have also represented and advised business owners on succession planning. That is, how do you get a business from one generation down to the next in the most efficient way, both from a tax standpoint and also from a governing standpoint. Frequently, when a business is passed from the founder to the next generation, you have controversies and disputes between the children in the operation of the business. In many cases some want to sell, some don’t want to sell. You can provide for that and prevent those kinds of disputes with well thought-out succession planning in the form of buy/sell agreements, employment agreements and operating agreements that will state with some specificity just who has the right to make the decisions, and who is going to be running the business while still treating all of the beneficiaries of a business owner equally.