Jan. 16, 2024
Be prepared for when Trump’s tax cuts expire next year, and taxes for most Americans will increase (Episode #293)
Did you know that in 2026 most American’s will see their taxes increase due to the expiration of Trump’s tax cuts? Tom discusses the pending changes that might increase you taxes, and what you might be able to do now to minimize your increase.
Did you know that in 2026 most American’s will see their taxes increase due to the expiration of Trump’s tax cuts? Tom discusses the pending changes that might increase you taxes, and what you might be able to do now to minimize your increase.
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Well, good afternoon, Michiganers.
It is Tuesday, January sixteenth, twenty
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twenty four, and of course this
is Tuesday with Tom, Michigan's only weekly
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podcast where we answer your questions about
estate planning and a state settlement in Michigan,
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and we don't send you a bill. I'm your host, Tom Doyle,
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a state planning attorney, lifelong Michigan
resident, and an ambassador for all
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things good in this great state of
Michigan. Welcome, welcome, welcome to
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today's program. Just a brief note, happy to report I think I mentioned
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it perhaps in the last episode.
We now have a new website for Tuesday
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with Tom, So check out the
new website let us know what you think.
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One of the things that you can
do with the new website there's a
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little microphone on the website. So
if you're listening to an episode and you've
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got some question or some thoughts on
that episode, or perhaps what else you
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would like to have me cover in
the future, just click on that microphone.
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You'll be able to send me a
recorded message. Speaking of last week's
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episode, it was a twenty twenty
four law update. I talked about many
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of the legal changes that were coming
about in this year. So if you've
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got questions about changes in twenty twenty
four law, perhaps it had to do
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with taxes or the pro code or
anything else along those lines, then I
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invite you to listen to last week's
episode, but kind of continuing along if
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you will, the same theme today's
show is to be prepared for when Trump's
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tax cuts expire next year and taxes
for most Americans will increase. But please
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remember what I'm about to discuss is, as always for educational purposes only.
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It is not intended to be legal
advice. You need to work with your
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attorney and your tax advisor and financial
advisor to determine what is appropriate for you
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and your estate. Be prepared for
when Trump's tax cuts expire next year and
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taxes for most Americans will increase.
If you look at during Donald Trump's time
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as president, he passed and signed
or he signed what had been passed as
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he Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,
and that was in twenty seventeen. And
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as a result of that law,
there were a number of things that happened
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to reduce your potential tax burden,
including individual income tax bracket. There was
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a restructure of individual income tax brackets. The highest rate prior to that was
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thirty nine point six percent. It
dropped down to thirty seven percent. Also,
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the earnings that were subject to the
tax rate were also changed, so
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a single person had who now had
earnings, they could have over five hundred
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thousand dollars, where before it was
four hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars.
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That number is actually six hundred nine
thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars in
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twenty twenty four. Before you will
be subject to that highest rate of income
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tax. Married people prior to the
twenty seventeen tax at the amount that you
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could have when the tax rate started
kicking in, the highest rate was four
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hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That
number went up to six hundred thousand dollars
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and because of an inflation factor,
it is now seven hundred and thirty one
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thousand, two hundred dollars in twenty
twenty four. So for those of you
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at the highest earnings rate, significant
tax savings because the rate dropped from thirty
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nine point six percent to thirty seven
and the aunt mount of income that you
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could have before it was subject to
that highest rate also went up. Other
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tax brackets a thirty five percent state
at thirty five percent, thirty three percent
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dropped to thirty two, twenty eight
dropped to twenty four, twenty five dropped
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to twenty two, fifteen dropped to
twelve, So across the board there was
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a general reduction in the tax rate, and then the folks in the ten
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percent bracket stayed the same, So
significant income tax savings for individuals as a
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result of passing that statue. The
problem. The problem is that those reductions
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in the income tax brackets and the
amount of income that you can have before
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it's going to be subject to the
highest tax bracket will expire at the end
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of twenty twenty five. So at
the end of twenty twenty five, we're
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going to go back to the highest
rate of being thirty nine point six percent.
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We're going to go back to lower
amounts that you can have before it's
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going to be subject to that income
And across the board, the thirty three
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percent will return, the twenty eight
percent returns, the twenty five percent returns,
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etc et cetera. That is all
assuming that Congress does not enact any
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new legislation in the meantime extending those
cuts. Well If you look at what
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Congress has been up to lately,
they can't seem to agree upon anything other
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than continuing to kick the can down
the road when it comes to getting putting
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together a budget for the country.
I'm one of those people that is pessimistic
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about the possibility that Congress might do
anything that would positively impact those changes.
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So now you need to start planning. You need to look and say,
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Okay, if the tax rate's going
to expire, change go up and more,
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if my income is going to be
subject to tax at the end,
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what can I do Now? Now's
the time meet with your tax advisor to
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see what you might be able to
do, essentially to take advantage of the
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lower tax rates that are set to
go up in twenty twenty five possibility,
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and again these are things to talk
to your tax advisor about. Maybe you'll
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consider a wroth conversion wroth IRA conversion. Take a traditional ira, convert it
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to a wroth. Now, when
you do that, you're going to pay
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tax on the money, but by
converting it at a lower tax rate,
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you might be saving yourself to tax
in the long run. But if you're
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going to do it too, think
about this. You've got two years,
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so you can spread the conversion over
two years so you're not stuck with taking
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it all in one year. Another
consideration, perhaps you're going to defer deductible
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expenses, and we're going to talk
about what's going to happen with the standard
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deduction, but you might start looking
at what expenses you've got. Maybe you
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can defer some of those expenses until
the change in the tax law. Another
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possibility, maybe you confront load some
of your withdrawals from your pre tax accounts,
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so you got two years you know
you're going to be taking the money
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out of your pre tax accounts.
Maybe a traditional iray for one K.
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Whatever happens to be taking the proceeds
out now at a lower tax bracket might
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be a strategy that your tax advisor
and your financial advisor would recommend you consider.
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Deductible expenses. The other change another
change, not the An other change
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that occurred as a result of that
act was there was a change in the
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standard deduction amount. Standard deduction amount
was raised from sixty five hundred to twelve
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thousand dollars for a single person.
Standard deduction route was raised from thirteen thousand
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to twenty four thousand dollars for married
couple. What did that do for many
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people? They no longer itemized deductions
because we had the standard deduction that had
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been gone up to twelve thousand dollars
for a single person. So if you
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didn't have itemized deductions that would account
for more than twelve thousand, you were
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better off taking the increased deduction.
Married people, if you didn't have deductions
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that exceeded twenty four thousand, you
were better off taking that standard deduction.
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Well, at the end of twenty
twenty five, when these tax standard deductions
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increased, they are now going to
go back to what they want were in
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twenty twenty seventeen before they went up, which is essentially cutting the standard deduction
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in half. Well, if you
look at what you've been doing with the
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standard deduction, if you've been taking
it, but if it goes to half
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of what it is now, maybe
you will have deductions that will exceed that
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amount, and so you need to
revaluate and look at with your tax advisor
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what impact it might have on you
when the standard deduction is decreased by half
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at the end of twenty twenty five. So those are kind of on the
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income tax end of things changes.
Now, as I talked about in the
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last week episode two, we also
have to look at the federal estate tax
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exemption. So let me just review
that one more time with you. The
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federal state tax exemption is the amount
that you can have in your state before
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the federal government is going to collect
and estate tax at the time of your
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death. That exemption amount currently in
twenty twenty four is for a single person
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thirteen million, six hundred and ten
thousand dollars, Meaning what if you die
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this year and you are single,
and your state when you add it all
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up, does not exceed thirteen thousand, six hundred and ten dollars, you
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don't owe a federal state tax if
you have an estate that is over that.
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It's going to be a graduated scale
that tops out at forty percent.
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Married people twenty twenty four, you
can have an estate worth twenty seven,
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two hundred and twenty dollars. That's
the federal estate tax exemption amount essentially for
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the married people. Twice is what
the single amount is. And again,
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if you die this year and your
spouse dies this year and your state not
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exceed that amount, you won't have
a federal state tax du twenty twenty six.
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So this is when the twenty seventeen
law expires. That single thirteen million,
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six hundred and ten thousand dollars is
now going to drop by half over
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half to five million. Married people, it's going to drop by over half
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to ten million dollars. Now those
numbers will be adjusted for caught for an
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inflation factor. We're not really sure
what it's going to be, but guestimates
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are that five million might be more
in the range of six million or so,
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that ten million might be more in
the range of twelve million. But
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if you're counting on a federal estate
tax exemption of twenty seven million and now
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you only have twelve, or you're
counting on a federal state tax exemption of
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thirteen million and now you only have
six, you have some significant planning that
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you need to take it look at. And that planning is very much going
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to revolve around how can you what
are the options available to you? Perhaps
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to start looking at shrinking the size
of the estate. You might start using
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gifts more than you're using before,
or if you hadn't been using gift strategies,
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to use gifts as a way to
shrink the size of the estate.
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You might look at five twenty nine
plans as a way to shrink the size
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of the estate. And I've had
previous episodes on the program where I talk
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about the advantage of using a five
to twenty nine plan is that you can
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frontload it with five years worth of
gifts, so you can take what otherwise
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was let's say a six million dollar
exemption in twenty twenty six, front load
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that with five. Well, if
you look at a single person, now's
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got thirteen million, you can frontload
a lot of five twenty nine plans and
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look at potential federal state text safe. Now, the good news we have
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this concept of portability with spouses.
That's how we generally say spouses have that
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twenty seven million, two hundred and
twenty thousand, because we can essentially add
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both spouses federal state tax assumption together, and we're still going to have portability
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for spouses in twenty twenty six.
But now is a time to start looking
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at planning. Maybe you're going to
look with your financial advisor and tax advisor
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and conclude that, hey, my
estate, our estate is such that we
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can't reduce it. We don't really
have options available to us to reduce that
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estate below what it looks like the
exemption amount is going to be in twenty
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twenty six. So today, another
thing to start looking at today is a
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question of maybe now, and I've
talked about this in previous episodes, maybe
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now's the time to visit an islet
and irrevocable life life insurance trust and intervocable
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life insurance trust isn't a tax savings
it's a way to purchase life insurance,
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so where the proceeds of the life
insurance will be used to pay any federal
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state tax that you have. So
you buy a life insurance policy and when
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you die, those proceeds are used
to pay off the federal state tax that
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otherwise you weren't able to shrink your
estate enough to do that. Well,
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an islet, it's an irrevocable life
insurance trust. It buys the insurance policy.
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And so if you're going to look
at possibly buying insurance to provide the
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liquidity, maybe you're farmer who doesn't
have the liquidity to pay a federal state
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tax, or a small business owner
who doesn't have the liquidity to pay a
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tax. You don't want to have
to sell the farm in order to pay
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the tax. You don't want to
have to sell the business in order to
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pay the tax. You might using
life life insurance inside of an islet to
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do that, But now is the
time to start looking at that, because
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if you're looking at life insurance,
as we all know, you might have
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some health issues that arise between now
and the end of twenty twenty six that
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might preclude you or make it prohibitively
expensive to purchase the life insurance. So
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now's the time to start looking at
those options going forward. If you're going
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to look at life insurance as a
way to provide liquidity. The federal gift
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tax exclusion, as I talked about
in last week program, that's how much
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can you give anyone in any one
year before you have to worry about gift
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tax on it. In twenty twenty
four, that amount is eighteen thousand dollars.
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It's expected that that's going to go
up to nineteen thousand dollars next year.
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But kind of a strategy that is
oftentimes being used is can you make
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gifts keeping them below that eighteen thousand
or nineteen thousand, so that you can
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shrink the size of your estate that
would now be subject to federal estate taxes.
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And the good news, and I
talked about this in previous episodes,
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is let's say a single person today
gave away thirteen million, six hundred and
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ten thousand dollars that's the amount of
the federal estate tax exemption, and then
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they die. They would not have
any exemption left because they used it all
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up by deferring paying gift taxes on
that thirteen million, six hundred and ten
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thousand. The good news is,
according to the IRS, if you take
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advantage of that federal estate tax exemption. Now, let's say you gave away
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thirteen thousand, six hundred and ten
dollars, but now you die in twenty
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twenty six, when the exemption amount
is only five million, because you took
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advantage of the thirteen million, six
hundred and ten thousand, that is still
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going to be good for you.
It's not like when taxes are going to
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be calculated, they'll be working from
that five million dollar number. So there
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can be advantages potentially in making what
otherwise would be taxable gifts and using up
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some of that federal state tax exemption
between now and the end of twenty twenty
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six. Now, one thing,
one thing that the statute, the Tax
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Cuts and Jobs Act did do,
which is quote unquote permanent. If you
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think about anything that Congress is doing
is permanent. Is before that the maximum
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corporate tax rate was topped out at
thirty five percent. That change to a
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flat twenty one percent tax rate,
So for corporations there was a big change
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a tax savings, and the good
news for corporations is that that continues on
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past twenty twenty five. So really
talking about the impact that all of this
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is going to have on your individual
taxes and your estate, not talking about
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your corporate tax rate. So again
you need to start thinking about it and
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looking at it and planning for it, because if you wait until the end
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of twenty twenty six, it might
be too late if you needed to take
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advantage of let's again say doing a
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or defront loading withdrawals from your pre
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which is why you need to start
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now rather than later. Of course, even though Amanda and I are not
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Well, good afternoon, Michiganers.
It is Tuesday, January sixteenth, twenty
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twenty four, and of course this
is Tuesday with Tom, Michigan's only weekly
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podcast where we answer your questions about
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and we don't send you a bill. I'm your host, Tom Doyle,
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a state planning attorney, lifelong Michigan
resident, and an ambassador for all
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things good in this great state of
Michigan. Welcome, welcome, welcome to
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today's program. Just a brief note, happy to report I think I mentioned
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it perhaps in the last episode.
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You'll be able to send me a
recorded message. Speaking of last week's
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episode, it was a twenty twenty
four law update. I talked about many
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of the legal changes that were coming
about in this year. So if you've
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got questions about changes in twenty twenty
four law, perhaps it had to do
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with taxes or the pro code or
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invite you to listen to last week's
episode, but kind of continuing along if
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you will, the same theme today's
show is to be prepared for when Trump's
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tax cuts expire next year and taxes
for most Americans will increase. But please
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remember what I'm about to discuss is, as always for educational purposes only.
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It is not intended to be legal
advice. You need to work with your
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attorney and your tax advisor and financial
advisor to determine what is appropriate for you
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and your estate. Be prepared for
when Trump's tax cuts expire next year and
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taxes for most Americans will increase.
If you look at during Donald Trump's time
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as president, he passed and signed
or he signed what had been passed as
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he Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,
and that was in twenty seventeen. And
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as a result of that law,
there were a number of things that happened
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to reduce your potential tax burden,
including individual income tax bracket. There was
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a restructure of individual income tax brackets. The highest rate prior to that was
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thirty nine point six percent. It
dropped down to thirty seven percent. Also,
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the earnings that were subject to the
tax rate were also changed, so
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a single person had who now had
earnings, they could have over five hundred
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thousand dollars, where before it was
four hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars.
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That number is actually six hundred nine
thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars in
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twenty twenty four. Before you will
be subject to that highest rate of income
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tax. Married people prior to the
twenty seventeen tax at the amount that you
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could have when the tax rate started
kicking in, the highest rate was four
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hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That
number went up to six hundred thousand dollars
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and because of an inflation factor,
it is now seven hundred and thirty one
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thousand, two hundred dollars in twenty
twenty four. So for those of you
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at the highest earnings rate, significant
tax savings because the rate dropped from thirty
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nine point six percent to thirty seven
and the aunt mount of income that you
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could have before it was subject to
that highest rate also went up. Other
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tax brackets a thirty five percent state
at thirty five percent, thirty three percent
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dropped to thirty two, twenty eight
dropped to twenty four, twenty five dropped
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to twenty two, fifteen dropped to
twelve, So across the board there was
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a general reduction in the tax rate, and then the folks in the ten
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percent bracket stayed the same, So
significant income tax savings for individuals as a
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result of passing that statue. The
problem. The problem is that those reductions
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in the income tax brackets and the
amount of income that you can have before
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it's going to be subject to the
highest tax bracket will expire at the end
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of twenty twenty five. So at
the end of twenty twenty five, we're
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going to go back to the highest
rate of being thirty nine point six percent.
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We're going to go back to lower
amounts that you can have before it's
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going to be subject to that income
And across the board, the thirty three
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percent will return, the twenty eight
percent returns, the twenty five percent returns,
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etc et cetera. That is all
assuming that Congress does not enact any
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new legislation in the meantime extending those
cuts. Well If you look at what
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Congress has been up to lately,
they can't seem to agree upon anything other
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than continuing to kick the can down
the road when it comes to getting putting
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together a budget for the country.
I'm one of those people that is pessimistic
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about the possibility that Congress might do
anything that would positively impact those changes.
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So now you need to start planning. You need to look and say,
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Okay, if the tax rate's going
to expire, change go up and more,
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if my income is going to be
subject to tax at the end,
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what can I do Now? Now's
the time meet with your tax advisor to
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see what you might be able to
do, essentially to take advantage of the
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lower tax rates that are set to
go up in twenty twenty five possibility,
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and again these are things to talk
to your tax advisor about. Maybe you'll
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consider a wroth conversion wroth IRA conversion. Take a traditional ira, convert it
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to a wroth. Now, when
you do that, you're going to pay
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tax on the money, but by
converting it at a lower tax rate,
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you might be saving yourself to tax
in the long run. But if you're
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going to do it too, think
about this. You've got two years,
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so you can spread the conversion over
two years so you're not stuck with taking
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it all in one year. Another
consideration, perhaps you're going to defer deductible
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expenses, and we're going to talk
about what's going to happen with the standard
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deduction, but you might start looking
at what expenses you've got. Maybe you
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can defer some of those expenses until
the change in the tax law. Another
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possibility, maybe you confront load some
of your withdrawals from your pre tax accounts,
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so you got two years you know
you're going to be taking the money
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out of your pre tax accounts.
Maybe a traditional iray for one K.
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Whatever happens to be taking the proceeds
out now at a lower tax bracket might
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be a strategy that your tax advisor
and your financial advisor would recommend you consider.
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Deductible expenses. The other change another
change, not the An other change
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that occurred as a result of that
act was there was a change in the
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standard deduction amount. Standard deduction amount
was raised from sixty five hundred to twelve
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thousand dollars for a single person.
Standard deduction route was raised from thirteen thousand
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to twenty four thousand dollars for married
couple. What did that do for many
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people? They no longer itemized deductions
because we had the standard deduction that had
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been gone up to twelve thousand dollars
for a single person. So if you
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didn't have itemized deductions that would account
for more than twelve thousand, you were
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better off taking the increased deduction.
Married people, if you didn't have deductions
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that exceeded twenty four thousand, you
were better off taking that standard deduction.
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Well, at the end of twenty
twenty five, when these tax standard deductions
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increased, they are now going to
go back to what they want were in
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twenty twenty seventeen before they went up, which is essentially cutting the standard deduction
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in half. Well, if you
look at what you've been doing with the
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standard deduction, if you've been taking
it, but if it goes to half
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of what it is now, maybe
you will have deductions that will exceed that
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amount, and so you need to
revaluate and look at with your tax advisor
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what impact it might have on you
when the standard deduction is decreased by half
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at the end of twenty twenty five. So those are kind of on the
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income tax end of things changes.
Now, as I talked about in the
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last week episode two, we also
have to look at the federal estate tax
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exemption. So let me just review
that one more time with you. The
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federal state tax exemption is the amount
that you can have in your state before
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the federal government is going to collect
and estate tax at the time of your
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death. That exemption amount currently in
twenty twenty four is for a single person
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thirteen million, six hundred and ten
thousand dollars, Meaning what if you die
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this year and you are single,
and your state when you add it all
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up, does not exceed thirteen thousand, six hundred and ten dollars, you
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don't owe a federal state tax if
you have an estate that is over that.
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It's going to be a graduated scale
that tops out at forty percent.
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Married people twenty twenty four, you
can have an estate worth twenty seven,
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two hundred and twenty dollars. That's
the federal estate tax exemption amount essentially for
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the married people. Twice is what
the single amount is. And again,
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if you die this year and your
spouse dies this year and your state not
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exceed that amount, you won't have
a federal state tax du twenty twenty six.
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So this is when the twenty seventeen
law expires. That single thirteen million,
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six hundred and ten thousand dollars is
now going to drop by half over
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half to five million. Married people, it's going to drop by over half
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to ten million dollars. Now those
numbers will be adjusted for caught for an
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inflation factor. We're not really sure
what it's going to be, but guestimates
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are that five million might be more
in the range of six million or so,
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that ten million might be more in
the range of twelve million. But
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if you're counting on a federal estate
tax exemption of twenty seven million and now
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you only have twelve, or you're
counting on a federal state tax exemption of
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thirteen million and now you only have
six, you have some significant planning that
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you need to take it look at. And that planning is very much going
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to revolve around how can you what
are the options available to you? Perhaps
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to start looking at shrinking the size
of the estate. You might start using
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gifts more than you're using before,
or if you hadn't been using gift strategies,
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to use gifts as a way to
shrink the size of the estate.
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You might look at five twenty nine
plans as a way to shrink the size
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of the estate. And I've had
previous episodes on the program where I talk
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about the advantage of using a five
to twenty nine plan is that you can
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frontload it with five years worth of
gifts, so you can take what otherwise
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was let's say a six million dollar
exemption in twenty twenty six, front load
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that with five. Well, if
you look at a single person, now's
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got thirteen million, you can frontload
a lot of five twenty nine plans and
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look at potential federal state text safe. Now, the good news we have
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this concept of portability with spouses.
That's how we generally say spouses have that
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twenty seven million, two hundred and
twenty thousand, because we can essentially add
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both spouses federal state tax assumption together, and we're still going to have portability
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for spouses in twenty twenty six.
But now is a time to start looking
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at planning. Maybe you're going to
look with your financial advisor and tax advisor
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and conclude that, hey, my
estate, our estate is such that we
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can't reduce it. We don't really
have options available to us to reduce that
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estate below what it looks like the
exemption amount is going to be in twenty
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twenty six. So today, another
thing to start looking at today is a
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question of maybe now, and I've
talked about this in previous episodes, maybe
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now's the time to visit an islet
and irrevocable life life insurance trust and intervocable
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life insurance trust isn't a tax savings
it's a way to purchase life insurance,
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so where the proceeds of the life
insurance will be used to pay any federal
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state tax that you have. So
you buy a life insurance policy and when
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you die, those proceeds are used
to pay off the federal state tax that
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otherwise you weren't able to shrink your
estate enough to do that. Well,
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an islet, it's an irrevocable life
insurance trust. It buys the insurance policy.
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And so if you're going to look
at possibly buying insurance to provide the
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liquidity, maybe you're farmer who doesn't
have the liquidity to pay a federal state
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tax, or a small business owner
who doesn't have the liquidity to pay a
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tax. You don't want to have
to sell the farm in order to pay
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the tax. You don't want to
have to sell the business in order to
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pay the tax. You might using
life life insurance inside of an islet to
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do that, But now is the
time to start looking at that, because
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if you're looking at life insurance,
as we all know, you might have
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some health issues that arise between now
and the end of twenty twenty six that
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might preclude you or make it prohibitively
expensive to purchase the life insurance. So
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now's the time to start looking at
those options going forward. If you're going
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to look at life insurance as a
way to provide liquidity. The federal gift
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tax exclusion, as I talked about
in last week program, that's how much
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can you give anyone in any one
year before you have to worry about gift
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tax on it. In twenty twenty
four, that amount is eighteen thousand dollars.
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It's expected that that's going to go
up to nineteen thousand dollars next year.
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But kind of a strategy that is
oftentimes being used is can you make
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gifts keeping them below that eighteen thousand
or nineteen thousand, so that you can
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shrink the size of your estate that
would now be subject to federal estate taxes.
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And the good news, and I
talked about this in previous episodes,
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is let's say a single person today
gave away thirteen million, six hundred and
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ten thousand dollars that's the amount of
the federal estate tax exemption, and then
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they die. They would not have
any exemption left because they used it all
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up by deferring paying gift taxes on
that thirteen million, six hundred and ten
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thousand. The good news is,
according to the IRS, if you take
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advantage of that federal estate tax exemption. Now, let's say you gave away
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thirteen thousand, six hundred and ten
dollars, but now you die in twenty
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twenty six, when the exemption amount
is only five million, because you took
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advantage of the thirteen million, six
hundred and ten thousand, that is still
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going to be good for you.
It's not like when taxes are going to
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be calculated, they'll be working from
that five million dollar number. So there
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can be advantages potentially in making what
otherwise would be taxable gifts and using up
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some of that federal state tax exemption
between now and the end of twenty twenty
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six. Now, one thing,
one thing that the statute, the Tax
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Cuts and Jobs Act did do,
which is quote unquote permanent. If you
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think about anything that Congress is doing
is permanent. Is before that the maximum
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corporate tax rate was topped out at
thirty five percent. That change to a
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flat twenty one percent tax rate,
So for corporations there was a big change
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a tax savings, and the good
news for corporations is that that continues on
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past twenty twenty five. So really
talking about the impact that all of this
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is going to have on your individual
taxes and your estate, not talking about
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your corporate tax rate. So again
you need to start thinking about it and
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looking at it and planning for it, because if you wait until the end
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of twenty twenty six, it might
be too late if you needed to take
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advantage of let's again say doing a
roth Ira conversion over a couple of years,
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or defront loading withdrawals from your pre
tax accounts over a couple of years,
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which is why you need to start
looking at that with your tax advisors
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now rather than later. Of course, even though Amanda and I are not
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tax advisors, we can certainly look
at how that impacts your estate, what
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a state options you have, Maybe
you need that islet created for you.
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That's certainly something that we can do. Maybe you need some adjustments to your
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state plan, distributions, et cetera. Those are certainly things that we can
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work on with. So we would
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Whether it's amending a plan that you
already have, putting a plan in
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place that will protect your loved ones
by having an appropriate state planning in place,
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or perhaps you need assistance in settling
your state. All of those things
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are certainly things that we can help
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Also, just a simpler reminder,
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document, maybe all you need is
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can simply go to the legal store, which you're going to find at Doyle
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prepared and sent to you for execution. Well, that's going to be it
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for today's show. As always,
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