Planning Commentary

January 13, 2022
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New RMD Tables in 2022—A (Small) Tax Break from the IRS

What is an RMD? We have good news! The IRS has reduced the amount that […]
December 14, 2021

2022 Tax Rates & Inflation Adjustments

The IRS released Revenue Procedure 2021-45 (PDF) and Notice 2021-61 (PDF), which detail the tax changes, inflation and […]
October 29, 2021

Are you Prepared?

Death can be a sensitive and often avoided topic of conversation. We don’t know when […]
September 29, 2021

Maximizing Wealth Transfers to Minors

If you wish to maximize wealth transferred to a minor child or grandchild without having […]
September 29, 2021

Your 2021 Year-End Planning Checklist

2021 has been another year of unknowns. Among those is what income tax and estate […]
September 28, 2021

Pay It Forward: A Primer on Intra-family Loans

In 1946, my grandparents, both children of Swedish immigrants, borrowed money from their parents and […]
September 17, 2021

You Could Have $0 Taxable Income in 2021

You Could Have $0 Taxable Income in 2021. (And zero or reduced IRA required distributions […]
August 30, 2021

Charitable Giving Legislation Update

We noted in a 2016 charitable giving article that Americans gave more to charity the […]
August 13, 2021

Tax Changes Looming?

Everybody knows big tax changes are coming. Nobody knows specifically what those changes will be. […]