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Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Tax Preparer

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Wednesday, April 26, 2023

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    110 minutes

Credit Information

  • BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 110-minute webinar is accredited for 2.0 CPE credits.

  • BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).

$197.00
CPE
ALL

This webinar will discuss how a spousal lifetime access trust (SLAT) can provide needed flexibility in estate planning. Our panel of transfer tax veterans will discuss the primary benefits and risks couples assume when establishing a SLAT and satisfying the annual reporting requirements for trust and estate professionals working with clients who have or may benefit from creating a SLAT.

Faculty

S. Gray Edmondson
Partner
Edmondson Sage Allen, PLLC

Mr. Edmondson practices in partnership, corporate, and individual tax planning; business transactions including mergers and acquisitions; business planning; tax controversy; estate and wealth transfer planning; probate; estate and trust litigation; asset protection; and charitable planning. He has conducted, authored, and directed numerous seminars for professional, academic, and civic groups on taxation, business, asset protection and estate planning. Mr. Edmondson works closely with clients to develop and implement such strategies.

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Susan P. Rounds
Head US Wealth Planning
Deutsche Bank Wealth Management

Ms. Rounds partners closely with bankers and other relevant teams to build wealth planning business, serving UHNW clients and business owners worldwide through income tax and estate planning, cross-border issues, business succession, risk management, philanthropy, insurance planning, asset allocation and diversification, family dynamics and governance issues. Ms. Rounds was elected to the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame in November of 2022.

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Description

For 2023 the unified estate and gift tax exemption has been indexed to $12.92 million. However, this all-time high exemption is scheduled to sunset in 2025 and return to $5 million in 2026. This amount will also be indexed for inflation. A SLAT can help combat the constant flux of estate tax guidelines.

Gifting assets to a trust can remove the asset, and any future appreciation, from the grantor's estate and take advantage of the current estate tax exemption. A SLAT is an irrevocable trust created by a grantor spouse for the benefit of the other spouse. It provides lifetime distributions for HEMS (health, education, maintenance, and support) for the beneficiary spouse with a remainder interest usually passing to children or grandchildren. When appropriately structured, the distributions from the SLAT can benefit the grantor spouse by contributing half the payment of certain ordinary bills.

The caveats of these trusts are many. Often reciprocal trusts are formed, and if not appropriately structured, these mirror trusts could be included in both spouses' estates and subjected to creditor claims. Trust and estate advisers must recognize the merits and caveats of this flexible planning vehicle.

Listen as our panel of trust and estate professionals explains the nuances of SLATs.

Outline

  1. Spousal lifetime access trusts: introduction
  2. Benefits and considerations
    • Current state of estate tax
    • Grantor
    • Beneficiaries
    • Trustee
    • Distributions
    • Other
  3. Caveats
    • Reciprocal trusts
    • Divorce and death
    • Other
  4. State considerations
  5. Reporting requirements

Benefits

The panel will cover these and other essential issues:

  • Choice of jurisdiction
  • Critical considerations for reciprocal trusts
  • Allowed distributions to the beneficiary spouse from the SLAT
  • Annual tax consequences to the grantor spouse establishing the trust
  • How to meet annual trust IRS reporting requirements for SLATs

NASBA Details

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify clients who will benefit from a SLAT
  • Determine the annual reporting requirements for SLATs
  • Decide how divorce can impact a SLAT
  • Ascertain whether reciprocal trusts are needed

  • Field of Study: Taxes
  • Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
  • Advance Preparation: None
  • Teaching Method: Seminar/Lecture
  • Delivery Method: Group-Internet (via computer)
  • Attendance Monitoring Method: Attendance is monitored electronically via a participant's PIN and through a series of attendance verification prompts displayed throughout the program
  • Prerequisite: Three years+ business or public firm experience preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers or accountants. Specific knowledge and understanding of estate, gift and trust taxation including various trusts types, the unified credit, and portability.

Strafford Publications, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of Accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE Credits. Complaints regarding registered sponsons may be submitted to NASBA through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

IRS Approved Provider

Strafford is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).