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The general rule is that damages for a decedent’s pain and suffering (the survival action) are an asset of the decedent’s estate and subject to federal estate tax and PA inheritance tax. The wrongful death award that goes to next of kin for loss of society, consortium and support are not estate assets and are not…
Tax cheaters will try anything.
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Benjamin Franklin
Here are a few charitable deduction scams that the IRS and Justice Department officials have been focusing on:
• Kickbacks. A charity solicits…
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
from William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride (1697)
Fritzi Benesch, 86 year old multimillionaire and former owner of the clothing company, Fritzi California, is suing her lawyer for malpractice. The case, brought in 2000 went to trial the…
Robert Anbrogi has an excellent article posted at Findlaw: Ethics: Hiring Experts You Don’t Plan To Use. He asks: "Do lawyers ever retain experts just to lock them out from being hired by the other side?"
"Lawyers do occasionally contact or ‘retain’ experts solely to disqualify them from working for the other side,"…
We are happy to welcome a guest post from political commentator Don Feldman:
It could have been worse.
* In the year of the “perfect storm” for Republicans, the charismatic Democratic candidate got 52% of the vote. If not for the timing of the economic meltdown, McCain might have won.
* As …
2010 is the year for Throwing Momma from the Train. In 2009 the estate tax exemption is $3.5 million. In 2011 the estate tax exemption goes way down to $1 million. In between? In 2010 there is no estate tax at all.
Obviously, something has to be done.
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center…