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Charitable Gifts Made By S Corporations: Opportunities And Challenges, Christopher R. Hoyt Dec 2010

Charitable Gifts Made By S Corporations: Opportunities And Challenges, Christopher R. Hoyt

ACTEC Law Journal

This article examines the tax opportunities and tax hazards when a subchapter S corporation makes a charitable gift. The article demonstrates that usually the shareholders of an S corporation and the charity are both better off when an S corporation makes a charitable gift compared to having a shareholder make a charitable gift of S corporation stock. Either way, the income tax benefit will be on the S corporation shareholder's personal income tax return. By having the S corporation make the gift, the parties avoid the "three bad things" that happen when a shareholder donates S corporation stock. The problems …


Front Matter Dec 2010

Front Matter

ACTEC Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Reducing Estate And Trust Litigation Through Disclosure, In Terrorem Clauses, Mediation And Arbitration, Jonathan G. Blattmachr Dec 2010

Reducing Estate And Trust Litigation Through Disclosure, In Terrorem Clauses, Mediation And Arbitration, Jonathan G. Blattmachr

ACTEC Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Resisting The Contractarian Insurgency: The Uniform Trust Code, Fiduciary Duty, And Good Faith In Contract, Frederick R. Franke Jr. Dec 2010

Resisting The Contractarian Insurgency: The Uniform Trust Code, Fiduciary Duty, And Good Faith In Contract, Frederick R. Franke Jr.

ACTEC Law Journal

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Protection Of Inherited Iras, James L. Boring, Richard R. Gans, Meghan E. Gearhart, Nancy Schmidt Roush, Susan B. Slater-Jansen Dec 2010

Protection Of Inherited Iras, James L. Boring, Richard R. Gans, Meghan E. Gearhart, Nancy Schmidt Roush, Susan B. Slater-Jansen

ACTEC Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Managing Family Wealth Through A Private Trust Company, Alan V. Ytterberg, James P. Weller Dec 2010

Managing Family Wealth Through A Private Trust Company, Alan V. Ytterberg, James P. Weller

ACTEC Law Journal

No abstract provided.


I Dig It, But Congress Shouldn't Let Me: Closing The Idgt Loophole, Daniel L. Ricks Dec 2010

I Dig It, But Congress Shouldn't Let Me: Closing The Idgt Loophole, Daniel L. Ricks

ACTEC Law Journal

By combining three tools that independently are beneficial to taxpayers, clever estate planners have devised a transaction - the installment sale of discounted assets to an intentionally defective grantor trust - that saves their ultra-wealthy clients millions of dollars in estate and gift taxes. This transaction, which is a foundational part of many estate plans, takes advantage of rules that Congress never intended to be used in this way. Becasue the Internal Revenue Service has conceded its inability to challenge the transaction based on current law, any solution lies with Congress. This Article proposes an amendment to § 2036 that …