You May Have Heard About

How “DINGs” and “NINGs”
Can Save Income Taxes
- - But Do You Know How to Properly
Plan, Structure and Administer Them?

Incomplete Gift, Non-Grantor Trusts (“INGs”) have become the hot, new way to save your clients state income taxes (they’re also known as “DINGs” or “NINGs” for ones sitused in Delaware or Nevada).

While DINGs and NINGs sound simple on the surface, like most estate and tax planning techniques the “devil is in the details” and they have deeper, more complex issues that need to be addressed if they are to be utilized properly.

That’s why we’ve brought in nationally renowned estate planning, tax and trust expert, Edwin P. Morrow, J.D., LL.M., MBA, CFP®, RFC®, to share with you just what you “need to know” to optimize the use of DINGs and NINGs for your clients.

On Part 1 of a special 2-part program series of 90 minutes each, Ed will address the basics of creating DINGs and NINGs:

• The unique trust structure approved in the key PLRs, including the most recent favorable ruling involving community property

• Which states are best for using INGs, including when and how much might be saved (Ed will even provide a chart comparing the 50 states plus the District of Columbia!)

• Overlooked design options to legitimately avoid some state trust residency rules (along with an examination of several recent state and U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the constitutional limits of these residency rules)

• How some states’ “source income” rules apply, regardless of a taxpayer’s residency

• How investors can use DINGs and NINGs to minimize the tax hit from Fortune 500 companies’ mega-inversions

• The overlooked federal income tax benefits possible with such trusts, such as avoiding the 3.8% surtax applicable to passive business owner income, as well as income tax shifting

• And much more!

In Part 2, Ed will dive deeper into some of the more complex technical issues of DINGs and NINGs, including:

• How to avoid state income tax for most clients’ largest taxable event – the sale of a closely held business or pass through entities holding real estate and business interests - - due to state “source income” rules (included will be a 50 state chart discussing “source income” and sales of intangibles – another important area that most commentators, charts and articles in this area inexplicably avoid!)

• Overlooked traps with marital and community property (and joint trusts) and how to avoid them

• Where’s the comfort level of “relying” on PLRs – what is clearly supported in the tax code, regulations or other substantial authority and what is not?

• Why NY’s response to DINGs will NOT become widely adopted by other states (and, what loopholes NY left open)

• Common administration traps that might trip up non-grantor trust status

• How to exploit IRC §643 regulations to trap capital gains inside the trust for tax purposes, even if they are distributed (and how ESBTs can trap non-capital gains income in trust even if income is distributed)

• Traps and opportunities with loans, investments and purchases to and from DINGs and NINGs

• Why politicians love DINGs and NINGs and how they can use them to exploit a little known new tax code section buried deep within the latest PATH Act!

• How to defer gains via installment sales to DINGs and NINGs at least two years prior to sale of a business (and the traps for installment sales of LLC/partnerships!)

• How using DINGs and NINGs in conjunction with charitable remainder unitrusts (CRUTs) will often be much, much more tax efficient than ordinary CRUTs (and why you need to know how to avoid the unrelated business income tax or “UBIT” rules

• And much more!

Join us and Ed for this special 2-part program entitled, “DINGs and NINGs: Technical and Planning Issues”.