When the Clock Strikes Midnight on December 31st,
Your Clients with Big Stock Holdings May Be Out of Luck!
When selling or gifting stock, clients have always been able to pick and choose those with the highest basis, to reduce potential capital gains taxes (or realize losses).
Things are about to change.
The Senate Tax Reform Bill includes a new “FIFO” rule, effective January 1. When a client sells stock in a company, the earliest purchased shares will have to be sold first (or gifted) - - those which often have the lowest basis!
For your clients with large stock holdings in a company that they acquired over time (including through automated stock purchase, dividend investment, or stock option plans), there is a limited window of opportunity before year-end to take advantage of tax planning techniques such as:
- Selling stock before year end
- Not just high basis stock, but maybe even low basis stock depending on the state your client lives in!
- Harvest losses to offset gains
- Special considerations for NUA stock and dual basis ISO shares
- Rearranging stock basis before year end
- Gifts to spouse and other individuals
- Gifts to non-grantor trusts
- Contributions to partnerships
- Smart charitable gifting before year end
- Outright gifts
- To a DAF or private foundation
- To a CRT
- To a non-grantor CLT
- To a non-grantor completed gift trust
- While considering other complicating issues with Tax Reform coming!
Prepare your clients’ planning right now, so you’re ready to act immediately when the Tax Reform Bill is signed into law!
Join us and nationally renowned tax and financial expert, Robert S. Keebler, CPA/PFS, MST, AEP (Distinguished), CGMA, for a timely 60-minute teleconference entitled, “The New FIFO Stock Basis Ordering Rules”.
Your purchase includes: MP3 Audio Recording and PDF handout materials for you and everyone in your office. PDF Transcript can be added on to your purchase for an additional fee.
- Program Title: The New FIFO Stock Basis Ordering Rules
- Speaker: Robert S. Keebler
- Duration: 60 minutes
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Robert S. Keebler
CPA/PFS, MST, AEP (Distinguished)
Robert S. Keebler, CPA/PFS, MST, AEP (Distinguished) is a partner with Keebler & Associates, LLP and is a 2007 recipient of the prestigious Accredited Estate Planners (Distinguished) award from the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. He has been named by CPA Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Practitioners in the United States and one of the Top 40 Tax Advisors to Know During a Recession. His practice includes family wealth transfer and preservation planning, charitable giving, retirement distribution planning, and estate administration. Mr. Keebler frequently represents clients before the National Office of the Internal Revenue…
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING CE CREDIT
The Ultimate Estate Planner, Inc. and the presenter are not registered Continuing Education Sponsors and this program is not pre-approved for continuing education credit for any state or regulatory agency.
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