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A financial statement audit can give lenders, investors and other stakeholders greater confidence in your business’s financial reporting. But not

Life insurance can provide critical financial protection for the people who depend on you or help you achieve other estate

What if the unthinkable happens and your spouse dies unexpectedly? Would you be prepared to cope emotionally and financially? As

An annual estate plan checkup is critical to the health of your estate plan. Because various exclusion, exemption and deduction

Retirement plan contribution limits are indexed for inflation, and many have gone up for 2019, giving you opportunities to increase

Estate planning aims to help individuals achieve several important goals — primary among them, transferring wealth to loved ones at

Business owners engaged in fraudulent activities often try to manipulate their companies’ financial statements. Fortunately for fraud experts, business owners’

A revocable trust isn’t effective unless you fund it by transferring ownership of assets to the trust. Transferring a vehicle

If your son or daughter currently is home from college on winter break, now is a good time to sit

Portability allows a surviving spouse to apply a deceased spouse’s unused estate tax exemption amount toward his or her own

If you or one of your adult children is getting married, you may be concerned about protecting your family’s assets

Here are some of the key tax-related deadlines affecting businesses and other employers during the first quarter of 2019. Keep

As the holidays approach and the year draws to a close, many taxpayers make charitable gifts — both in the

Prepaying property taxes related to the current year but due the following year has long been one of the most

Eligible parents will soon begin receiving payments from the federal government. The IRS announced that the 2021 advance child tax

Many businesses use independent contractors to help keep their costs down. If you’re among them, make sure that these workers

One benefit of the current federal gift and estate tax exemption amount ($11.7 million in 2021) is that it allows

If you and your spouse have similar irrevocable trusts that benefit each other, it’s important to know that the trusts

Even after your 2020 tax return has been successfully filed with the IRS, you may still have some questions about

If you have minor children, choosing a guardian to care for them should you die unexpectedly is one of the

“Tax day” is just around the corner. This year, the deadline for filing 2020 individual tax returns is Monday, May

Now that the federal gift and estate tax exemption has reached an inflation-adjusted $11.7 million for 2021, fewer estates are

Are you thinking about setting up a retirement plan for yourself and your employees, but you’re worried about the financial

Although much of estate planning deals with what happens after you die, it’s equally important to have a plan for

Even though the federal gift and estate tax exemption is currently very high ($11.7 million for 2021), there are families

President Biden recently announced his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan (AFP), the third step in his Build Back Better policy