You already know that taxes are complicated. It’s why so many people pay to have professionals handle their taxes every year. But tax basis calculation is one of the concepts that people tend to have the most trouble understanding. Part of the problem is that this...
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It’s sad but true: estate planning mistakes are incredibly easy to make. Planning your estate is a complicated process, with lots of potential pitfalls that you need to avoid. Worse, while there are certainly similarities and big rules that every estate plan must...
Keep Money in the Family By Engaging in Smart Estate Planning Thoughtful estate planning often includes accomplishing the objective of ensuring that your money and property actually goes where you want it to go. Quite often, that means keeping it in the family....
Estate planning is not the same as thoughtful estate planning. Thoughtful estate planning includes really getting granular on the details. As they say, the devil’s in the details. There is no better application than thinking through planning where a spouse is...
Life insurance is important for income replacement, business buy-outs and succession and tax planning. There are many types of policies and a lot of minutiae that makes everyone but lawyers crazy (even the lawyers too). Understanding how they work is important. More...