The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken on the estate taxation of company-owned life insurance and whether a stock redemption obligation will reduce a company’s value for estate tax purposes. For details on bad news for small business owners in Connelly v. U.S., see this TI-TRUST, Inc. Estate Planning Brief.
Also in this issue:
• The limits of the taxing power
• RMDs not needed from certain inherited IRAs this year
• Pet trust requirements
• Electronic signature on a will denied
• When is a loan really a gift?
• Children are “relatives”
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