“Call it an astute estate planning move, but I didn’t want to leave eight notebooks of baseball cards encased in plastic sleeves for my children to sort through down the road.” It may be time to sell your baseball card collection. Arizona Daily Star’s recent article entitled “The valuable lessons…
How the “Achieving a Better Life Experience” Act, known as ABLE, provides a mechanism to create a tax-advantaged savings tool for individuals with disabilities and their families. The benefits for income, health care, food and housing for disabled Americans are awarded based on a resource test, so that individuals who…
Saving for college but needing to receive Medicaid is a complicated equation. The answer “It depends” is not much of a comfort when considering how college savings accounts will be treated for Medicaid purposes. However, it is, unfortunately, the most accurate answer. There are several factors that must be considered:…
Tuition refunds, K-12 education costs and rollovers to ABLE accounts for disability-related expenses, will now reflect recent tax law changes. New regulations that reflect changes from the 2015 Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes (PATH) Act, and the 2017 tax overhaul will be issued by The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and…
529 plans are a great way to help parents with taxes and college costs. Grandparents, aunts and uncles and anyone who wants to pitch in, can also benefit. Starting to put aside money in a 529 college plan when children are very young, is a wonderful way to push yourself…
A dramatic increase in the number of adults with developmental disabilities, coupled with their increasing life spans, presents planning challenges for parents. Special needs families are accustomed to things being more complicated, and retirement planning is no exception. Parents must plan for their own retirement as well as ensure that…
Given the rising cost of most college tuitions, the complexity of college loan agreements and the difficulty for most middle-income families in simply maintaining their budget for ordinary daily household expenses, planning for your children’s college education is an important topic to consider at the earliest possible stages of a…
“We see that as a big driver for everyone – the opportunity to put your money into the market and get that appreciation and have all those earnings tax-free when you use them for qualified expenses at a university or trade school, or wherever your child or grandchild, or whoever it is you're…
Even though many gifts no longer make tax sense, 529 plans remain viable options for both estate tax exclusion and income tax reduction, without much complexity and cost. Which gifts make sense for taxes these days? Consider your options. Before recent changes to the federal estate tax exemption amount (i.e.,…