In these pilot episodes of Conversations on Wealth, we discuss a variety of hot topics critical to wealth planning professionals with Steve Akers, Managing Directors and Senior Fiduciary Counsel at Bessemer Trust. We start with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kaestner and the repercussions of such opinion. We then discuss the proposed regulations addressing clawback of the applicable exclusion amount, select IRS audit issues, the IRS’s recent assault on various wealth planning transactions using §2036(a)(2), and a variety of other tax developments.