CPAs: Make Direct Indexing Your Estate Planning Secret Weapon
Traditionally, the role of accounting professionals in estate planning has been tertiary at best, with clients consulting CPAs only on the tax implications of select decisions—or simply leaving them out of the process altogether. As you’re certainly sick of hearing by now, however, today’s most successful CPAs are taking on more advisory functions, with one […]
All This Focus on Mitt Romney’s Taxes Could Ruin Things for All the Wealthy People
Today, a Bloomberg article by Jesse Drucker called attention to Mitt Romney's "intentionally defective grantor trust" aka "IDGT" or "I Dig It" trust. For the seasoned estate tax planning or wealth preservation professional, this is old hat, but for many people this is quite exciting. And by exciting I mean, "Holy shit, they can do […]