University of Rochester



For Financial Advisors

A quarterly online publication for:

  • attorneys,
  • accountants,
  • trust officers,
  • insurance advisors,
  • investment counselors, and
  • financial planners.

It is designed to keep philanthropic planners up-to-date on developments in estate planning as they relate to testamentary and lifetime plans of support of qualified charities.

Winter 2013
  • NEW LAW FOR NEW YEAR New Certainty, New Opportunities
  • Estate Tax: Exemption Same, Rate Rises
  • IRA Charitable Rollover Back Again
  • Mix of Old and New
  • Other Key Provisions of ATRA 2012

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Fall 2012
  • Terminating a CRT in Times of Low Discount Rates: The Rest of the Story
  • Set-Aside Treated as Qualifying Distribution
  • No UBTI Issues When CRT Owns Shares of Trustee/Beneficiary Endowment

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Spring/Summer 2012
  • IRS Approves Variable Payments from Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
  • Briefly ...

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Winter 2012
  • Low Interest Rates Drive ACGA-Suggested Rates Down Again
  • Extra Care Needed in Planning CRTs
  • Legislative Alert: IRA Charitable Transfer Expired at End of 2011
  • Trustees Accountable for Management of Trust
  • Briefly ...

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Fall 2011
  • New Gift Annuity Rates, New Methodology
  • Low Rates Make Lead Trusts, Gifts of Income Interests Attractive
  • IRS Approves Purchase of Commercial Annuity by Trustee of CRAT
  • When Is a Gift a Gift?
  • Briefly ...

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Spring/Summer 2011
  • Benefits of Accelerating Estate Gifts
  • IRD Still Best Choice for Testamentary Gifts
  • Continuing Role for Credit Shelter Trusts
  • Gift of the MAGI
  • IRA Rollover Expires at End of 2011
  • Correction of Scrivener's Error Nets $11 Million for Charity, Deduction for Estate

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Winter 2011
  • Beyond the Sunset: 2010 Tax Act
  • Individual Income Tax: Steady as She Goes
  • Payroll Tax Cut: New Wrinkle
  • Resurrection of Estate Tax
  • Charitable Planning Under Tax Act 2010

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