How Does the Covid-19 Low Interest Rate Environment Affect Existing Insurance Policies?
The interest rates on loans, including bonds, are at an unbelievable low due to the global pandemic. This will affect the health of existing life insurance policies. What’s Happening Whole Life and Universal Life (not variable or indexed). These are called...
IRS Releases 2020 Inflation Adjustments
In Revenue Procedure 2019-44, the IRS has released the official inflation adjustments for 2020, and the adjustments relevant to estates, trusts and gifts are all as expected. For an estate of any decedent dying in calendar year 2020, the basic exclusion amount will be...
The State of Estate Taxes
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) recently unveiled a plan to dramatically expand the federal estate tax on the wealthy, including a new 77 percent rate on billionaires’ estates, as leading Democratic politicians push new taxes on the richest Americans to combat...
Long-Term Care Awareness Month
National Long-Term Care Awareness Month is an annual designation observed in November. Did you know that 70% of men and women over the age of 65 will need some kind of long-term care services? This kind of care can be very expensive and take a toll on the family as a...
