Wondering if you’ll owe federal gift tax in 2025? You’re probably in the clear. Most people never pay the gift tax thanks to generous annual and lifetime ...

Imagine your child is getting married and you want to help pay for their wedding. You’ve been saving for years and now have $30,000 set aside for their big day, which you plan to hand over in the form ...

Most people focus their tax planning efforts on minimizing the amount of income tax they pay. However, the federal gift tax can be even more onerous because of its 40% rate, and many people don't even ...

Want to get on someone’s good side? Help them out financially? Or, perhaps, just make them really happy? Give ‘em a gift! (Cash is always nice.) But if you’re in a gift-giving mood, and you have a lot ...

A Q&A on the potential 2026 estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax changes and how counsel should approach planning with the uncertain future of federal transfer tax. Do you think ...

The other plank of the tax code, the estate tax and gift tax (along with the generation-skipping transfer tax, adopted to ...

IRC section 2035(c) presumes gifts an individual makes within three years of death are tax-avoidance transactions and eliminates the advantage of such “deathbed transfers” by increasing the gross ...

The 2025 tax landscape has changed due to the GOP tax and spending law, referred to by some as the “big, beautiful bill,” signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025. This multibillion-dollar ...