Oct. 29, 2024

2025 Increase in Federal Estate Tax and Gift Exemptions (Episode # 307)

Understanding the implications of the increased federal estate tax and gift exemptions is crucial for effective estate planning. Join the conversation on how these changes can affect your financial future.

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Understanding the implications of the increased federal estate tax and gift exemptions is crucial for effective estate planning. Join the conversation on how these changes can affect your financial future.

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Well, good afternoon, Michiganers. Today is Tuesday, October twenty nine,

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twenty twenty four, only a couple more days until Halloween,

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and of course this is Tuesday with Tom, Michigan's only

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weekly Internet show where we do answer your questions about

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estate planning and a state settlement in Michigan. As always,

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I'm your host, Tom Doyle, a state planning attorney, lifelong resident,

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an ambassador for all things good in this great state

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of Michigan. Welcome to today's program. Well, last episode Medicaid

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in Michigan. Why you should remove your home.

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From your trust.

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If you have a living trust and you have deeded

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your home into your trust, there might be concerns about

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that if you have to apply for medicaid. So I

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invite you. If you have a trust and you've deeded

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your home into your trust, please listen to last week's

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episode where I talk about why it might be necessary

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or recommended that you would remove the home from your trust. Today, well,

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we're almost almost at the end.

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Seems hard to believe.

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Of twenty twenty four, we're November's right around the corner,

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Holidays will be here, and before you know it, it's

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going to be January first, So.

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Today twenty twenty five increase.

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In federal estate tax and gift exemptions. But please remember

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that what I'm about to discuss during this program is,

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as always, for educational purposes only. It is not intended

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to be legal advice. As always, you need to work

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with your attorney and your tax advisor to determine what

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is appropriate for you and your estate plan. Twenty twenty

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five increases in federal estate tax and gift exemptions.

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What does that mean?

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Well, obviously, on January first, there's going to be some increases. Annually,

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the IRS takes a look under the current law, based

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upon inflationary decisions, determines what is going to be the

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increased amount for various taxes, and today we're going to

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simply talk about the federal estate tax and the federal

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gift tax exemption. So twenty twenty five, there's going to

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be significant adjustments to those that. If your family looking

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to manage wealth then reduce future tax burdens, you should

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be aware of these increases and how they might affect

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your planning. So what are the new exemption limits? Well,

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the IRS recently announced an increase in the federal estate

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and give tax exemption. First, estate tax exemption. A state tax,

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as you know, is the amount of a state that

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you can have at the time of your death before

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the federal government starts collecting a tax based upon the

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value of that estate, which is called the federal estate

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now the estate tax or federal state tax.

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The state the state, I'm.

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Sorry, it has to be of a certain size before

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it's going to be subject to that, and that is

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a federal estate tax exemption amount. So in twenty twenty four,

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which is effective for the next two months, essentially, that

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federal estate tax exemption amount is thirteen million, six hundred

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and ten thousand dollars. That means, if you were to

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die yet this year in twenty twenty four, if your

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estate is not more than sixteen million, six hundred and

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ten thousand dollars, you would not owe a federal estate tax.

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On January first, that exemption amount is going to increase

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to thirteen million, nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars. So

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again next year twenty twenty five, we don't worry about

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federal estate taxes, at least having a pay of federal

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estate tax unless when someone dies in twenty twenty five,

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their estate is larger than thirteen million, nine hundred.

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And ninety thousand dollars. The other.

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Consideration that we have for taxes that we want to

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talk about the increases the gift tax exclusion. The gift

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tax exclusion that's the amount that you can give anybody

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during a calendar year and you don't have to worry

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about filing a gift tax return because it's not subject to.

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A gift tax.

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That exclusion amount currently in twenty twenty four is eighteen

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thousand dollars, meaning during the next two months, if you

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have not already made gifts to anybody during twenty twenty four,

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you could give anyone up to eighteen thousand dollars a

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year yet in twenty twenty four and you don't have

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to worry about paying a gift tax. Now twenty twenty

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five January first, that eighteen is going to become nineteen

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thousand dollars, So again in twenty twenty five, you will

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be able to give more way by way of gifts

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without having to worry about a gift tax. Now, the

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primary reason that we oftentimes talk about the taxes is

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because how high the taxes can be. We have what's

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considered a combined a state in gift tax, it gets

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a little bit into the weeds. But at the end

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of the day, the maximum amount for federal state tax

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and gift taxes and then NAY is about forty percent.

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Now it's a graduated scale, but in general conversation with clients,

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we're talking about a forty percent tax. Generally people are

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interested in paying a forty percent tax either on gifts

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or forty percent tax on their estate at the time

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of their deaths. So these increases for twenty twenty five

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reflect the inflation of judgments that the IRS is making

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as a have an ongoing recalibration of taxes. The point

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is to try and balance tax burdens relative to rising

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living costs. Now, obviously, higher exemption amounts allows individuals to

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transfer more assets tax free over their lifetime or at

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the time or their death, which obviously can significantly affect

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a client's long term financial planning strategies.

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Now, there's another concept.

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I've talked about it before in other episodes, but I

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should remind you of it here, and that is this

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concept of portability with married couples. Portability to be with

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married couples, and what does that mean. It's a key

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feature of federalistate tax that allows married couples to essentially

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double their estate tax exemption. Twenty twenty four, you have

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a thirteen million, six hundred and ten thousand dollars exemption.

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A married couple can essentially double that amount because you

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each have a thirteen million, six hundred and ten thousand

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dollars exemption. But the concept of portability is this. Let's

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say I have an estate I die in twenty twenty four,

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and my state.

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Is only three million dollars.

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That means I basically have ten million, six hundred ten

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ten thousand of unused federal state tax exemption. I can,

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with this concept of portability, pass that unused portion of

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my state tax exemption to my spouse. So my spouse

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can add now to her thirteen million, six hundred.

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Ten thousand my unused.

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Ten million, six hundred and ten thousand, which is why

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we talk about portability, essentially doubling the exemption amount between

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married people. So next year twenty twenty five, each spouse

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has at thirteen million, nine hundred ninety thousand dollars. That

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essentially means they can now have a combined estate of

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twenty seven million, nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars before

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they have to worry about federal estates.

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Is now a couple of.

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Caveats, one being this only applies to us spouses. Okay,

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these exemption amounts are only talking about US spouses. Secondly,

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with respect to portability, portability be has to be elected

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on the estate tax return that gets filed after the

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first spouse's death. So when someone dies a married couple,

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if they want to take advantage of this concept of portability,

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it's important that they meet with a tax professional to

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determine what needs to be filed in order to pass

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on the unused exemption amount. We will even have clients

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today who don't really have much of an estate, but

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the concern is that the surviving spouse might one day

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have a large enough estate and so make sure that

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they file that Gift Tact exemption to protect.

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For that other spouse.

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And the common one I use is someone who's in

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medical school.

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Spouse who's in medical.

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School is likely going to have a very high yearningcapacity

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depending upon what area of medicine that they're going to

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go on to. Perhaps their spouse dies while they're still

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in medical school. It might be important one day that

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that unused federalistate tax exemption has passed on to that

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surviving spouse, And so there's a situation where it could

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be prudent tax planning even though there is no federal

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state tax due because of the death of the first

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spouse to pass on that concept of portability. So we're

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still going to have portability in twenty twenty five. So

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what are some of the implications if you will for

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your state in gift tex plan. Well, essentially, the twenty

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twenty five increases are going to provide an opportunity for

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again high networth families to reduce a state and gift

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tax liabilities.

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And here's some ideas. One with that.

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Nineteen thousand dollars annual gift tax exclusion, individuals can start

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giving that amount if they want to any number of

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recipients without affecting their lifetime exemption. So one of the

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strategies that oftentimes clients will use is making these annual

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gifts quite frankly, as a way to shrink the size.

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Of the estate.

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So let's say, for example, that you had a federalist

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a sizeable estate right now that in twenty twenty five

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is going to exceed that thirteen million, nine hundred and

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ninety thousand. One of the things that you might consider

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doing is using annual gifts, using that nineteen thousand dollar

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annual gift as a way to shrink the size of

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that state. That could be to multiple airrs, depend upon

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how many people maybe children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, whatever happens

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to be using that as a tool for reducing the

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size of the state. Now that best works over a

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number of years, if you had nineteen thousand dollars a year,

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If you did eighteen thousand dollars a year this year,

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and nineteen thousand dollars a year next year, and going

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forward over time. Annual gifting is a tool that's oftentimes

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used to shrink the size of a state that's subject

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to federal state taxes. Larger exemptions also make it feasible

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to consider establishing and funding certain types of trust rather

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than your normal revocable living trust, something like an irrevocable

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life insurance trust, or certain types of charitable trust, or

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perhaps some sort of an other a different irrevocable trust.

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The concept being to use these exemption amounts with some

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additional planning tools. Again, all designed towards shrinking or avoiding

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that potential forty percent federal estate tax liability. Another consideration, obviously,

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is you need to review your current state plans. If

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you've already structured a plan with exemptions in mind, and

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now these exemptions are going to be increasing, or you

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a structured a plan where you didn't have a federal

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estate tax consideration, but maybe your state has grown, you

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want to revisit different whatever you've got. Do you have

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a trust, do you have wills, what are your beneficiary resignations,

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et cetera, et cetera, so that you can take advantage

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of these higher exemption amounts. Now that is twenty twenty five,

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But you might be sitting there saying, well, hey, Tom,

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I don't have a thirteen million, nine hundred and ninety

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thousand dollars US to eight, so I don't have to

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worry about any of this. And that could be the

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case if you know you're going to die in twenty

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twenty five. But I talked about this in previous episodes.

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What we need to look at now is potential changes

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beyond twenty twenty five, because while the twenty twenty five

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increase is a welcome development, It's essential to remember that

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the current Gift Tex Exemption Federalist D tax exemptions are

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set to revert to pre twenty eighteen levels on January first,

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twenty twenty six. That means are going to sunset that

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nineteen I'm sorry, thirteen million, nine hundred and ninety thousand

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dollars that you have next year. That because if the

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law sunsets as it's currently scheduled to, and the only

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way it's not going to sunset is if whatever president

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we have after the election next month, and whatever House

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and Senate we have, if they get together and change it,

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they can do that. But if they don't or can't

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get together and change it, that means those exemptions are

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going to sunset on January first, twenty twenty six. And

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essentially what that means is that thirteen million, nine hundred

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ninety thousand dollars next year is now going to be

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somewhere in the area of five to six million. Five

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to six million obviously is much less than the thirteen million.

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So you might be sitting there saying, hey, I don't

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have a thirteen million dollar estate or an almost fourteen

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million dollars state. The question is do you have an

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estate though that might be about five to six million dollars,

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and if so, or more than five to six million dollars,

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if so, planning should start looking. You should start looking

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at your planning now for what options you have in

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order to shrink that estate so that if the law

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stays as it is on January first, twenty twenty six,

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you will have done appropriate estate planning. So, because the

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law is going to sunset, okay, you need to look

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at utilizing the higher exemptions now in order to avoid

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potential taxes that you would have as of January first,

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twenty twenty six. So even if at bottom lane, even

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if you don't have federal state tax today, look at

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what the numbers are projected to be January first, twenty

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twenty six. A lot of are higher network clients we're

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starting to talk to you about. Okay, what are the

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planning options. Don't wait until December of next year to

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suddenly say, oh my god, I need to go out

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and do something, because you might not be able to

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find an attorney who's going to have the time to

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be able to do it because of all the other

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people that are.

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Waiting until the end of the year.

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I suggest that it's prudent to look and say, okay,

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let's see what happens with the presidential election, let's see

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who's going to control the House in Congress, and start

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thinking about what options you might have and what it's

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going to take to implement those options, and then kind

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of work backwards from there. From December thirtieth December thirty first,

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at twenty twenty five, what time frame do you need

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to start working to implement the options to shrink the estate?

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If in fact it is going to reduce to that

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five to six million, the good news is we're still

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going to have portability, so again between spouses, it's going

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to be somewhere between at least best guess right now,

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ten and twelve million dollars with the portability between spouses.

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So some of the key takeaways I guess for individual

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and the family one plan now to lock in those benefits.

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If you have an estate near or above the exemption threshold,

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the twenty twenty five increase offers an important opportunity to

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reduce your further your future tax burdens. Leverage portabilities, make

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sure that if a spouse guys, the surviving spouse gets

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appropriate tax advice from a tax professional to look and say,

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what do I need to do to protect portability in

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going forward and take advantage of that annual gift exclusion

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making gifts to family members or perhaps and it's not

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subject to the federalistate tax exclusion we're talking about, but

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there might be some whole charitable or giving opportunities, which

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is a whole different conversation that can be had as

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a tool for reducing the size of the estate. So,

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in summary twenty twenty five, federal estate and gift tax

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exemption increases create opportunities to protect and manage your wealth efficiently.

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Whether you're looking to optimize annual gifting, create tax managed trust,

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review an existing estate plan, those changes should be factor

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into your twenty twenty five planning discussions, and by proactively planning,

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you can ensure that more of your assets reach your

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intended beneficiaries.

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You will be protecting.

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Your family's wealth for generations to come. And finally, again

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with the potential for these terms these amounts, if you

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will limit sunsetting January twenty twenty six, now's the time,

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or at least the beginning of twenty twenty five is

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the time to start looking at what your options are,

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of course, Aman and I would be honored to have

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the opportunity to help you look at your estate tax situation,

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work with your tax advisor to come up with an

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appropriate plan, either to take advantage as much as you

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can of the exemption amounts that are currently in place,

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and how do you protect those exemption amounts going to

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twenty twenty five, or if you don't obviously have a

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federal estate tax issues, certainly we are here to help

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you put together your estate plan to protect your loved ones,

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or perhaps a mending a current plan that you have,

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or of course in settling in a state. Simply head

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