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Thursday, November 14, 2019 Live

The Complete Trust Workshop! (E1911101)

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Registration: 8:00 AM EDT

Ramada Plaza Hotel and Conference Center Cranbury - South Brunswick

390 Forsgate Drive, Exit 8A,
Jamesburg , NJ 08831

8 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

The use of trusts will continue to undergo changes in the current year. Clients need to be informed why planning is essential in these changing times. The purpose of this course is to explore the many beneficial issues of trusts, an essential element in estate planning. This course gives insights and practical pointers concerning trusts of every shape and size after tax reform. Clients will be eager to review their estate plans in light of recent and proposed legislation.

DESIGNED FOR

CPAs who wish to have a complete understanding of the various uses of trusts

BENEFITS

  • Identify the areas of trusts in connection with disability, charity, life insurance, leveraging gifts, principal residences, and minors
  • Understand the role played by a marital deduction trust and a credit shelter bypass trust
  • Explain how trusts may protect assets and perpetuate family wealth over multiple generations

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation
  • Guide to legislative changes and their impact on trust planning
  • Introduction to trusts with emphasis on typical provisions
  • Revocable living trusts
  • Common testamentary trust arrangements - Bypass trusts, QTIP trusts, and other marital trusts
  • Asset protection trusts
  • Sophisticated trusts for estate planning and asset transfer - GRATs, GRUTs, and QPRTs
  • Charitable trusts - Charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, and pooled income funds
  • Irrevocable life insurance trusts
  • Medicaid trusts: special needs and Miller
  • Trusts for minors - Sections 2503(b) and 2503(c), and other trusts
  • Dynasty trusts
  • Section 461(l) as applied to trusts and estates
  • Trusts to hold S corporation stock
  • Special problems of estates and trusts relating to the 3.8-percent tax on investment income and specific solutions

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

A basic course in estate and gift tax and a basic course on estate and trust income taxation

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

  • Qualifies for CFP credit
  • Qualifies for IRS credit

INSTRUCTOR

Philip Herr

Philip M. Herr, CPA, Esq., PFS

Self-Employed

Philip M. Herr is a Tax Professional with over 30 years of professional experience, having worked in public accounting firms as well as insurance companies. He is a member of the New York and U.S. Tax Court Bars, is a New York CPA, member of the AICPA and holder of their PFS designation. Philip specializes in several areas including: estate, gift, and trust planning; fiduciary taxation; estate and gift taxation; estate and trust administration, including the probate process and fiduciary accounting; all aspects of financial planning; ERISA, employer-sponsored retirement plans, IRAs, Roth IRAs, SEPs and SIMPLEs; distribution planning from qualified and non-qualified arrangements; non-qualified deferred compensation for tax-exempt organizations and for-profit companies; executive benefit arrangements and executive compensation using both equity and life insurance-based techniques; business succession planning and owner exit strategies; charitable giving and various tax-exempt entities; individual income tax including foreign reporting rules; and taxation in general. Mr. Herr has taught college at Ohio Northern University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and New Jersey City University at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in the CEBS and CFP programs sponsored by these institutions. He has conducted hundreds of webinars, webcasts, teleconferences and in-person presentations to colleagues, clients and other professionals needing CPE, CLE, and Insurance CE credits. Mr. Herr is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Long Island University, C.W. Post Center, Professional School of Accountancy, with a B.S. in Accounting; and a B.A. in Political Science from Long Island University, C.W. Post Center. He also holds a J.D. from the Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law.

PRICING

$279.00 - Member

$379.00 - Nonmember

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