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Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Live

Financial, Estate, and Tax Planning For Individuals Over 55 (E1806131)

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Registration: 8:00 AM EDT

NJCPA Education Center

425 Eagle Rock Avenue,
Roseland , NJ 07068

8 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

The next decade will see $30 trillion of accumulated wealth transferred from one generation of Americans to the next. That’s the largest such change in recorded history. Your older clients desperately need your help with problems they don’t even know they have. This program prepares you to talk with your clients about qualified plan and IRA distributions, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, working with any current changes to estate taxation, and effective use of trusts in wealth transfer planning.

DESIGNED FOR

Practitioners whose client base is aging and who need assistance in counseling for retirement and wealth transfer.

BENEFITS

  • Determine cash flow needs during retirement
  • Establish accumulation goals
  • Explain the value and purpose of revocable living trust arrangements
  • Explain Medicaid Trusts, Durable Powers of Attorney and Living Wills
  • Advise on maximization of Social Security, Medicare Supplement and Prescription Drug plans
  • Use common planning tools to maximize IRA benefits
  • Advise on tax free wealth transfer planning opportunities

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Social Security benefits
  • Medicare coverage and limitations
  • Medicaid eligibility
  • Revocable living trusts
  • Charitable split-interest trusts
  • Ownership of life insurance policies and planning opportunities using existing policies
  • Living wills and durable powers of attorney
  • Taxation of pension distributions
  • Long-term care insurance
  • Estate and gift planning taking into account changes in the lifetime exclusion under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

NJCPA Goes Green - Registrants Save $20
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INSTRUCTOR

Edward Zollars

Edward K. Zollars, CPA

Tax and Technology Partner

Thomas Zollars & Lynch, Ltd.

Ed is a partner with the firm of Thomas, Zollars & Lynch, Ltd, in Phoenix, Arizona, and specializes in tax issues for closely held businesses and individuals. He has served on committees with the American Institute of CPAs' (AICPA) Tax Section and currently serves on the Arizona Society of CPAs' (ASCPA) legislative tax liaison committee. Ed has published tax podcasts on tax matters and is currently producing the weekly audio and video for the Current Federal Tax Developments podcast on current tax matters for Kaplan Financial Education and the related blog with regular tax updates throughout the week. Along with writing, editing and presenting courses for the past 15 years, Ed has written articles published in Practical Tax Strategies and The Tax Adviser. He is a frequent contributor to a number of online professional tax discussion groups, including the NJCPA Member Open Forum.

PRICING

$379.00 - Nonmember

$279.00 - Member

Pre-Registration Closed

Online pre-registration for this event is now closed.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

Print a registration form

COURSE DEVELOPER

Loscalzo Institute