Brent chats about how he’s thinking about using the 2025 Estate Tax exemption of $13.99 million. He discusses getting ulta-high net worth clients to act, the basic planning frameworks and numbers, and benefits of the full picture.

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Brent chats with Ryan Halvorson about how to make smart moves with equity compensation. They talk about different kinds of equity compensation, from RSUs, stock options, to deferred compensation. They then explain what issues to watch out for and how to make smart decisions from a financial planning perspective.

Ryan Halvorson is an advisor at TCI Wealth Advisors. With more than a decade of wealth management experience, he brings determination and passion as an advisor. He provides tailored advice to help individuals make informed decisions about their financial future. Prior to joining TCI, his professional journey included roles at Merrill Lynch, US Trust, US Bank Private Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley. 

Beyond the numbers and charts, building relationships with clients is what Ryan enjoys most.  These relationships go beyond transactions and are founded on trust and understanding. Ryan’s goal is to create connections that stand the test of time. He is honored to be a reliable and steady partner with his clients that will last for the next 20-30 years.  

Ryan can be found here: Ryan Halvorson, CFP® – TCI Wealth

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Brent chats with Paul Hood about what the world looks like for buy sell agreements after the US Supreme Court’s decision in Connelly. They discuss how, if at all, the decision changes existing law, what business owners should think about for business succession planning, and where the case leaves us going forward.

Paul Hood obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from Louisiana State University and an LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. Paul has taught at the University of New Orleans, Northeastern University, The University of Toledo College of Law and Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law. Paul has authored or co-authored nine books and over 500 professional articles on estate and tax planning and business valuation. A frequent contributor to Leimberg Information Services since its inception, Paul is a highly sought after speaker and consultant due to his innate ability to see through complexities and explain difficult and even boring subjects in understandable and entertaining language. He minces no words in doing so. Along the way, Paul’s been a father, husband, lawyer, trustee, director, president, partner, trust protector, director of planned giving, expert witness, agent, professor, judge, juror and a defendant, and he uses his experience in these myriad roles to guide others.

Paul can be found here About | Paul Hood Services

A text of the case can be found here 23-146 Connelly v. United States (06/06/2024)

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Brent chats with Toni Ann Kruse about what it means from a practical and tax perspective to expatriate from the United States. They explain the difference in residency, covered expatriates, and significant tax considerations. They also talk about some of the day-to-day challenges of leaving the United States.

Toni Ann Kruse is a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery who has a broad-based estate and wealth transfer planning practice in New York. She advises ultra-high net worth individuals and families on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, trust and estate administration, state fiduciary income tax planning, and charitable gifting, as well as contested trust and estate matters. She has significant experience working with multinational clients on structuring efficient ways to benefit US persons as well as inbound and outbound planning opportunities. Toni Ann regularly works with family companies, advising on governance and succession issues between generations; drafts and administers complex estate plans; implements leveraged lifetime wealth transfer techniques; and counsels fiduciaries in complex trust and estate administration matters, often involving various asset classes across several jurisdictions.

Toni Ann has published articles in publications such as Trusts & Estates Magazine, Bloomberg Tax, Law360, and the New York Law Journal. She regularly speaks at estate planning conferences on various topics and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Reuters as an industry expert.

Toni Ann can be found here: Toni Ann Kruse – McDermott Will & Emery

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Brent chats with Geoff Grenert about how to help client understand complicated ideas as part of their planning. They discuss the challenge of explaining things simply, helping people overcome their own fears, and ultimately helping people make wise decisions. They also talk about their processes for creating and delivering the message their clients need to hear.

Geoff, Cypress Strategies founder, has worked with affluent families and businesses since 1997 in the area of legacy planning. He helps his clients crystallize their goals and objectives from a family, business and personal perspective. Together with his support staff and the clients advisors he creates a synergy of talent, education, and resources; providing a dynamic team approach in creating and implementing innovative and efficient planning solutions.

Geoff brings years of experience in the design and acquisition of large life insurance policies. Because of his knowledge, trust offices, accounting firms, and tax attorneys seek his advice.

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Brent explains some of the challenges of planning when there is a non-US citizen spouse. He dives into the estate tax marital deduction, the gift tax marital deduction, Form 3520, income tax recognition events, and expatriation. He also explains how these issues arise at various generational levels of a family.

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Brent chats with Matt Hochstetler about the basics of irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs). They explain what these trusts are, why they are useful, Crummey provisions, and creative planning with life insurance.

Matt Hochstetler is a trusts-and-estates attorney practicing in Naples, Florida and Canton, Ohio. His practice serves wealthy families, family offices, and private trust companies across the United States.  Matt counsels clients on estate planning and administration as well as matters concerning the structure and operation of family offices and private trust companies.

Matt is an ACTEC Fellow and earned his LLM from the University of Miami Heckerling Graduate Program in Estate Planning, where he was the highest-ranking student in multiple classes.  He received his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Toledo College of Law.

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Brent chats about how to think about the US elections, reminds you the CTA beneficial owner reports are due by December 31, 2024, suggests planning based on the laws as they are not as we wish they would be, and spotting important red flags when there are non-Americans in the family tree.

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Brent chats about the basics of Remainder Purchase Marital Trusts (RPMTs). He explains how they work within the gift tax marital deduction rules. Then he compares them to QTIP Trusts and IDGTs (see our prior episodes about those). Finally, Brent walks through the mechanics of RPMTs and how they can be effective wealth transfer tools.

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Brent chats with Steve Gorin about the Beneficiary Deemed Inheritor’s Trust (BDITs). They talk about the structure of these irrevocable trusts, their potential benefits in estate planning, and risks involved in these trusts. they give practical ideas about analyzing whether to use BDITs.

Steve Gorin in a Partner at Thompson Coburn LLP. Steve crafts estate plans for individuals, keeping in mind their financial security and desire to save income and estate tax. In his work for businesses, Steve helps owners plan for the eventual sale (to co-owners, employees, or third parties) or transfer (to family members), and provides a legal framework for an orderly transition while strategically saving income, transfer, and FICA taxes.

Drawing on his background as an accountant — and his still-current CPA license and Chartered Global Management Accountant credential — Steve structures businesses to achieve business objectives and save income or estate tax. He has helped fledgling businesses organize, thriving businesses restructure to save hundreds of thousands of dollars of income tax when planning a transition to the next ownership group, and mature multi-million or billion-dollar businesses plan tax-saving transfers to the next generation.

Over the course of his 30-year career, Steve has amassed a deep knowledge of nearly every aspect of tax strategy for privately held businesses and freely shares that knowledge with others in the field. His quarterly newsletter, “Business Succession Solutions,” is considered essential reading for hundreds of CPAs and attorneys, who describe it as “a fantastic contribution to the field.” Steve also maintains a blog, Business Succession Solutions, intended to help business owners — and those who advise or support them — consider smart tax strategies.

Steve is a highly visible member of the ABA’s Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section and the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, which regularly directs its members to Steve’s quarterly newsletter. He has represented both groups in comments to the IRS, the U.S. Treasury, and tax lawmakers.

You can learn more about Steve here: https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/people/steve-gorin. You can sign up for Steve’s newsletter here: https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/insights/blogs/business-succession-solutions/about.

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