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Business Ownership Insights: Corporate Transparency Act
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), effective January 1, 2024, impacts millions of small businesses across the U.S.
Plan Sponsor Update 2024 Retirement and Employee Benefit Plan Limits
The Internal Revenue Service released 2024 cost-of-living adjustments for dollar limitations on benefits and contributions. These include employer-sponsored retirement and welfare plans and may affect how plan sponsors administer their plans in the coming year.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: It's That Time of Year
Did you know that October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month? It’s true – since 2004, the President of the United States and Congress have declared October as a month dedicated for the public and private sectors and tribal communities to work together to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity.
Estate Planning Tools: Transfer on Death Instrument
The Illinois Real Estate Transfer on Death Instrument Act (755 ILCS 27/1 et seq.) has been in existence for a little over a decade now, and consideration should be given to using a transfer on death instrument (“TODI” in this article) as part of your estate plan. But what is a TODI? And does everyone need one? The goal of this article is to provide a general overview of the TODI and help you determine if your estate plan should include one.
What is a Qualified Charitable Distribution?
Most Americans give to charity on a regular basis. What many Americans may not realize is that their charitable donations are not receiving the same tax benefits that they once did.
Charitable Giving Strategies
Charitable giving is a great way to help save on income taxes, maximize your impact on a charitable legacy you hold dear to your heart, and potentially help minimize death taxes.
Will a Nursing Home Take All My Assets?
A concern we frequently hear goes something like this: “If I ever go into a nursing home, they’re going to take all my assets!” While this concern may not be accurate, the underlying fear is real: all your life savings being used up to pay for your end-of-life care, leaving little left for your loved ones.
Charitable Giving
A giving legacy can help fulfill your philanthropic goals.
Retirement Plan Legislation Secure Act Highlights
The new law requires employers to set a default contribution rate of at least 3% but not more than 10% for the employee, plus an automatic contribution escalation of 1% per year up to a maximum contribution rate of at least 10% but not more than 15%.
Crypto Insights: Exploring What Happened with FTX
By now everyone has heard of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried (known in the crypto community as SBF). FTX was viewed as one of the darlings of the crypto space. It was thought to be among the most secure. SBF was even lobbying for crypto regulation. FTX was believed to be stable in an extremely volatile space. Having it collapse in the way it did is what’s really shocking. Its collapse has played a huge role in what is happening in crypto right now.
Navigating the Trustee Selection Process
Trusts have been part of the estate planning conversation for over a thousand years and have become the primary estate planning vehicle in use today. The Trustee is charged with certain duties relative to their role. While being nominated may be an honor, serving as a Trustee carries risk and responsibilities.
5 Most Common Beneficiary Designation Mistakes
One aspect of estate planning that can often be overlooked is making sure your beneficiary designations are up to date. Many people think that once you have signed your Last Will and Testament, your estate plan is complete. Not so fast! This may surprise you, but oftentimes a person’s Will governs very few assets at the time of their death. Consider retirement accounts and life insurance: it is not the Will, but rather the beneficiary designation that these assets have that will govern who receives it at the time of death.