This Week's Topic: Charitable Giving and Reinstating the Death Tax

We have three choices regarding our estates: Family and/or other individuals, taxes or charities.

Do you know anyone who is anxious to pay the IRS? Yet people are dying every day with taxable estates that could have been planned so as to save enormous taxes by proper structuring and by charitable giving techniques. That is one reason why charitable remainder trusts have become so popular as it allows the asset owner to avoid capital gain taxes, enjoy cash flow and make a heft gift to charity at the end of the donor