Posts Tagged ‘New York Estate Tax’

While many Federal lawmakers wished to eliminate estate and gift taxes entirely, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act did not do so. Instead, legislators compromised on a temporary increase in the exemption amounts for these taxes. This increase could benefit certain age groups that are in the process of estate planning. There has also […]

New York’s Estate Tax Dramatic Changes

April 30th, 2014 by David Goldfarb

April 2, 2014 — New York’s Estate Tax law has just undergone its most dramatic changes since the late 1990s, with long overdue increases in tax exemption that will eventually equal the Federal Estate Tax exemption, but also with a “cliff” that results in the loss of any exemption from New York Estate Taxation altogether […]

Estate Planning Resources on the Web

February 10th, 2014 by David Goldfarb

Goldfarb Abrandt & Salzman LLP’s Trusts & Estates Articles. ABA’s Wills: Why You Should Have One and the Lawyer’s Role in Its Preparation Should I Have a Will? from Goldfarb & Abrandt LaGuru Internet Law Library: Trusts and Estates Cornell’s State Probate Statutes on the Internet Estate Planning Links National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys […]

Reprinted with permission from Trusts & Estates Law Section Newsletter, Spring 2011, Vol. 44, No. 1, published by the New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207 After nine years of speculation about what would happen to the federal estate tax once its one-year “repeal” disappeared at the end of 2010, on […]