Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate
Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate, a play about family interdependence, love, hate and estate planning, had a limited run, Sept. 27 to Oct. 28, to critical acclaim in New York City....
Richistan
A peek at the country within our country, where the rich live and consume -- copiously...
Restorative Payments
Good news for taxpayers: the Internal Revenue Service extended these payments to retirement plans...
New Programs Guarantee Retirement Income
Highly paid executives have a new way to guarantee lifetime monthly income from their company's 401(k) plans. It's a nifty new array of products; but they do have drawbacks. ...
The 419(e) Plan Is a Good Option—If Handled Well
If your clients who are business owners are thinking about setting up a 419(e) single-employer welfare benefit arrangement plan, beware: It must be airtight to escape the tentacles of the Internal Revenue Service....
Piggybacking on Stellar Returns
IRS approves investors using charitable remainder trusts to gain access to some of the nation's best investment managers...
Total Coverage
Specialty insurance covers identity theft, home invasion, kidnapping and ransom. What's worth buying?...
IRS “Clarifies” Rules for Inherited IRAs
Beneficiaries of qualified retirement plans know the value of stretching out distributions over life expectancy. Retirement plans may -- but don't have to -- offer stretch distributions to beneficiaries....
Selling Property?
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are expected this week to adopt a rule change that effectively kills the use of private annuity trusts to postpone taxes on the sale of appreciated property. ...
The Twilight of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?
There's a lot of talk lately about revamping our health care system to address its outrageous costs and the millions of uninsured. ...






