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How to Maximize Your Annual Gifts and Minimize Your Estate Taxes

Annual Exclusion Taxpayers are allowed to gift up to $13,000 per year to an unlimited number of people without having to file a gift tax return or pay a gift tax. If the amount goes over $13,000 to any one


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7 Smart Year End Tax Planning Moves

  1) Harvest Capital Losses Capital gains property includes stocks, bonds and mutual funds.  Currently, the stated rate on long term capital gains is 15%.  If you have a net loss after netting all of your gains and losses, the


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19 Taxes and Counting

19 Kids and Counting is TLC’s TV show about the Duggar family.  I’m not sure what is scarier, the fact that they already have 19 kids or the rest of the title…”and Counting.”


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So if I Catch a "Baseball", I May Owe Taxes to the IRS?

Recently in baseball, a Yankee fan caught Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit ball and now he may have to pay the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) tax money on the few gifts the Yankees gave him.  These items included tickets, signed bats,


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How (And When) to File a Federal Gift Tax Return

Form 709, is required to be filed if a gift is made to someone for more than $13,000 in one year.  Gifts between spouses are not required to file.  Gifts can be made to an unlimited number of people in


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