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Estate and Gift Taxation 2021 - 40 CPE Credit Hours

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Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this program projects the accountant into the world of financial planning. This course will give the participant practice in analyzing problems, developing solutions, and presenting final personal financial plans to clients.
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Estate and Gift Taxation 2021 - 40 CPE

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This presentation integrates federal taxation with overall financial planning. The course will explore tax strategies relating to the central financial tactics of wealth building, capital preservation, and estate distribution. The result is a unified explanation of tax economics that will permit the tax professional to locate, analyze, and solve financial concerns. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this program projects the accountant into the world of financial planning. This course will give the participant practice in analyzing problems, developing solutions, and presenting final personal financial plans to clients.

The course surveys wills, living trusts, gifts, marital property, and probate avoidance. Will and trust forms are explored along with living wills, durable powers of attorney, and nominations of conservator. Designed to eliminate estate problems and death taxes, the emphasis is on practical solutions that are cost effective.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite:General understanding of estate and gift taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None


Learning Assignments & Objectives

As a result of studying each assignment, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below each assignment.

ASSIGNMENT                  SUBJECT

Chapter 1                      Financial Tax Planning

At the start of Chapter 1, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Goals v. purposes

* Investment purposes

* Myths of retirement

* Investment goals

* Investment needs of five critical decades

* Investment vehicles & entities

* Retirement - the ultimate objective

* Retirement costs & income needs

* Retirement plan development

* Basic planning elements

Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 1, participants will be able to:

1. Identify short-term financial goals and investment purposes, recognize the importance of defining, listing, and prioritizing realistic goals specifying how investing allocation changes with age.

2. Determine the tax consequences of title holding methods by:

a. Specifying ways to hold title to assets starting with the simplest and most direct way to hold property;

b. Cite the tax benefits and drawbacks of co-tenancies, corporations (both C & S), partnerships, qualified retirement plans, and trusts particularly as they relate to a client's after-tax investment return; and

c. Identifying custodianship under the uniform acts and determining how an estate can be tax beneficial to taxpayers.

3. Recognize the impact of retirement planning postponement identifying the importance of early planning using the author's suggested step process, specify a balance sheet method to plan retirement, determine how to diversify portfolios by balancing liquid and nonliquid assets, and identify the purpose of savings and strategies to save.

After studying the materials in Chapter 1, answer the exam questions 1 to 9.

ASSIGNMENT                  SUBJECT

Chapter 2                      Building an Estate

At the start of Chapter 2, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Types of income

* Information reporting on taxable income

* Rules of budgeting

* Cash

* Acquisition

* Assets

* Rules of management

* Managing risk

* Taxes

* Leverage

Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 2, participants will able to:

1. Identify money management specifying income types, recognize causes of increased taxable income for itemizing taxpayers, and specify taxable income types and their proper reporting.

2. Determine the distinctions between tax-free municipal bonds from fringe benefits in generating tax-free income, cite the benefits of tax deferral, and identify tax-deferred investments.

3. Specify ways to shelter income stating how income sheltering amplifies investment return.

4. Recognize the budgeting of income into cash by containing expenditures with the author's step process and discretionary income development, identify a client’s negative outlook on budgeting and counter strategies, determine how to convert income into assets by purchasing investments, and specify asset acquisition rules.

5. Specify tax-advantaged investments citing management rules, and determine the economic impact of accelerating deductions, postponing tax liability, and leveraging.

After studying the materials in Chapter 2, answer the exam questions 10 to 23.

ASSIGNMENT                  SUBJECT

Chapter 3                      Preservation of Wealth

At the start of Chapter 3, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Obstacles to preservation

* Tracking spending

* Building savings

* Designing a budget

* Determining worth

* Analyzing net worth

* Ignorance

* Inflation

* Taxes

* Tax planning tactics

Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 3, participants will be able to:

1. Identify spending habits stating how to design a budget to increase discretionary income, determine net worth using a balance sheet, and select assets and liabilities for an inventory on which to base financial goals.

2. Specify why individuals should take primary responsibility for the investment planning including necessary self-education, determine the allocation of financial resources among investments to maximize return, and recognize the impact of inflation, risk versus return, and basic income tax planning tactics.

After studying the materials in Chapter 3, answer the exam questions 24 to 28.

ASSIGNMENT                  SUBJECT

Chapter 4                      Deferral

At the start of Chapter 4, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Elements of like-kind exchanges

* Related party exchanges

* Personal & multiple property regulations

* Delayed (deferred) exchange regulations

* Actual & constructive receipt rule

* Qualified contribution plans

* Tax-deferred annuities

* Installment sales

* At-risk rule

* Deferred compensation and options

Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 4, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the benefits of tax deferral, recall the former use of tax deferral under §1034, and cite the tax deferral advantage under §1031 listing its elements.

2. Specify the related party §1031 restrictions identifying prohibited parties or entities and permissible disposition exceptions, cite recommendations for the protection of exchange participants, and recognize the history of the multiple property regulations stating the unique netting requirements for multiple asset exchanges.

3. Recall the evolution of delayed exchanges naming allowable transfers, determine how to select qualified replacement property, specify constructive receipt safe harbors & methods to secure exchange party performance, cite the §1031 partnership underlying asset rule, identify retirement plan design, identify popular methods for providing for retirement, and select near retirement investments.

4. Specify the requirements for an installment sale, determine how to elect out of the installment method, identify the variables affecting §453 availability, and determine how to use a property option to receive income and postpone tax.

After studying the materials in Chapter 4, answer the exam questions 29 to 43.

ASSIGNMENT                  SUBJECT

Chapter 5                      Reduction

At the start of Chapter 5, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Work Opportunity Credit & Rehabilitation Credit

* Low Income Housing Credit & Child & Dependent Care Credit

* Estimated taxes

* Interest

* Automobile deductions

* Business entertainmentdeductions

* Depreciation & cost recovery

* Net operating losses

* Tax breaks for nonitemizers

* Amended returns

Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 5, participants will be able to:

1. Identify tax credits specifying qualified computational expenses, limitations, and restrictions.

2. Recognize the estimated tax rules and procedures including payment deadlines, underpayment penalties, and the economics of overpaying estimated taxes, and specify the nondeductible interest types.

3. Determine the deductibility of investment interest, prepaid interest, points, and prepayment penalties recognizing the offset of passive income with rental property mortgage interest.

4. Identify business vehicle operating costs using (or switching between) the actual cost method or the standard mileage rate, recognize the importance of expense and mileage records and specify depreciation traps when purchasing a vehicle.

5. Recall the requirements for business expenses to meet the directly related test, cite the elements of the associated test, identify the business expense statutory exceptions, and recognize the application of R.R. 90-23 and R.R. 99-7 to the deduction of transportation costs to a temporary work location.

6. Determine business asset depreciation using both ACRS and MACRS recovery classes, identify sources of §172 net operating losses (NOLs) recognizing carryback and carryover rules, specify tax breaks for nonitemizing taxpayers, recognize the advisability of filing an amended return, determine how to avoid audits by claiming refunds for provable items stating which return amendments are safest.

After studying the materials in Chapter 5, answer the exam questions 44 to 57.

ASSIGNMENT                  SUBJECT

Chapter 6                      Income Splitting

At the start of Chapter 6, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Using progressive tax rates

* Deductible business expenses

* Home-office deduction

* C or regular corporations

* S corporations

* Family partnerships

* Kiddie tax trap

* Childcare & education

* Gifts

* Interest-free loans

Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 6, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize formats for income splitting, determine the tax treatment of employee and self-employed business expenses particularly home-office expenses stating the two non-exclusive use exceptions and the income limitation, cite changes made to home office deduction under TRA ’97, and recognize the ability of self-employeds to make annual deductible contributions to a Keogh plan.

2. Identify the tax opportunities available to an unincorporated business including retirement plans, the hiring of family members, travel expenses, casualty losses, bad debts, and self-employment tax.

3. Determine the uses and tax characteristics of regular and S corporations by:

a. Citing circumstances when incorporation is desirable,

b. Recognizing the taxation of these entities including their ability to split income; and

c. Specifying initial §351 formation and capitalization issues and identifying appropriate tax form filings for each entity.

4. Recognize the use of partnerships to split income among partners including the use of §704(e) family partnerships and the consequences of gifting a partnership interest to a child or to another family member.

5. Identify the use of a custodianship to split income specifying planning considerations and good investments for children, recognize deductions and credits for childcare, education, children, and §7872 loans, and specify the income and later estate tax benefits of gifts.

After studying the materials in Chapter 6, answer the exam questions 58 to 69.

ASSIGNMENT                  SUBJECT

Chapter 7                      Eliminat

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