Understanding Estate Taxes
- Introduction/Welcome
- Expenses that reduce your estate
- Individual estate tax exemption
- Determining your taxable estate
- Federal estate taxes
- 3 ways to reduce estate taxes
- Leaving everything to your spouse (A)
- Leaving everything to your spouse (B)
- Living trust with tax planning (A)
- Living trust with tax planning (B)
- QTIP trust
- Generation skipping transfer tax
- Qualified domestic trust
- Tax free gifts
- Appreciating assets are best to give away
- Give assets to charity
- Remove insurance from estate
- How insurance trust works
- $3 million estate
- Life insurance (inexpensive way to pay estate taxes)
- Personal residence trust
- Grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT)
- Limited Liability Company (LLC) and Family Limited Partnership (FLP)
- Charitable remainder trust
- Charitable lead trust
- Private charitable foundation
- 3 ways to reduce estate taxes
- Six-step action plan
- Conclusion