North Bay Business Journal

  • Getting comfortable with making large gifts

    January 9th, 2012

    We are currently in a unique tax environment allowing for $5 million of lifetime gifts (per individual, $10 million per married couple) to be made tax-free. If no action is taken by the government, the gift tax exemption will return to $1 million beginning Jan. 1, 2013.

  • Two-year window in estate-tax increase good time to plan

    September 19th, 2011

    NORTH BAY – Estate tax and law experts are telling clients that the time to plan is now, while there is some clarity on a long-contentious issue that could easily change again in the not-so-distant future.

  • At long last, some clarity on estate tax

    January 10th, 2011

    NORTH BAY – After more than a year of uncertainty due to the lack of an estate tax exemption, there is some clarity, at least for the time being.

  • With no fix on estate tax, uncertainty reigns

    January 11th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – For years, estate planners and accountants have discussed 2010 in terms of “What will happen with the estate tax?”

  • Accounting: Push on to extend $8,000 homebuyer credit

    October 26th, 2009

    More than 160 members of Congress have signed a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner requesting that the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit be extended.

  • Estate-tax audits by IRS may increase

    January 12th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – With the increase in the estate-tax exemption to $3.5 million this year, fewer filings are expected due to fewer people being subject to the tax.

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