Clawback Has No Teeth

[This article was originally published on 2/23/2012 as Steve Leimberg’s Estate Planning Newsletter #1929.] Practitioners continue to express concerns about the possible “clawback” of tax benefits if a taxpayer uses the current $5,000,000 federal gift and estate tax exclusion amount...

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Complications from Changes in the Exclusion

[This article was originally published on 1/31/2011 as Steve Leimberg’s Estate Planning Newsletter #1768] The new tax act [Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Jobs Creation Act of 2010] provides a gift and estate tax exclusion of $5,000,000, and many...

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Tax-Driven Trusts

The following article is a combination of materials created for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Estate Law Institute for 2018.  The section on sole use trusts is adapted from the “overview” and “details” texts that are part of the Sole Use Trust...

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Timely Payment of Inheritance Tax

The five percent discount for inheritance tax paid within three months of death (§ 2142 of the Inheritance and Estate Tax Act, 72 P.S. § 9142) is often a significant benefit, and so care should be taken to make sure...

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Other Inheritance Tax Exclusions

Most exclusions from the Pennsylvania inheritance tax can be found in section 2111 of the Inheritance and Estate Tax Act, Part III of Article XXI of the Tax Reform Code of 1971, 72 P.S. § 9112.  However, there are other...

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Intestate Succession

When a person dies without a will, or dies with a will that does not have a residuary clause or does not dispose of the decedent’s entire estate, then the part of the decedent’s estate not disposed of by a...

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