Transfer Certificates are releases of the Federal estate tax lien on a decedent’s property. They are issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The estate administrator (personal representative, executor, successor t…
The United States Congress enacted tax legislation, ushering in several changes to the wealth transfer tax system, which took effect on January 1, 2018. Under the new law, the federal estate, gift and generation-skippin…
1. Understand how the U.S. Estate Tax affects your estate.
Florida’s Verification of Employment Eligibility Law, effective January 1, 2021, requires private employers to use E-Verify or to use the Form I-9 and maintain copies of the documents used to complete the Form I-9 for th…
All employers must verify the authority of new hires to work in the United States by completing the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 (and E-Verify if they have registered to use it or are required to use it b…
In order to transfer or sell U.S. real property owned by a deceased person, whether solely or jointly with another person, the estate or surviving joint owner, including a surviving spouse, must obtain a Tax Certificate …
If the surviving spouse is a US citizen, then in general one-half the value of the jointly owned property will be included in the estate of the first spouse to die.
U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens and those whose domicile is the U.S.) are taxed on the value of their worldwide assets at death.
So, you’re the Personal Representative of an estate of a deceased Canadian with a vacation home in Florida (or a cottage in Michigan) with a fair market value on the date of death of $400,000 and an account at Bank of Am…
In a previous post I wrote about the estate & gift tax exemptions increasing in 2018 to over $11,000,000 ($11,700,000 in 2021). However, that threshold for filing an estate tax return and paying estate tax relates to Uni…
