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Thu Jun 25

• Virginia Inheritance Tax

Wed Jun 24

• Answers to questions attorneys would rather you not ask
• Understanding Estate, Gift and Generati
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Sun Jun 21

• Veterans Benefits & Property Taxes: Paying property taxes is every homeowner' ;s responsibility . This does not exclude veterans who acquired their homes through a VA loan. Some lenders require monthly property tax payments as part of monthly amortizations while others don't. Most states offer tax relief for veteran property owners while some don't. Find out what your city, county or state requires and what types of discount on tax property are available for you to benefit from.

Sat Jun 20

• Cash For When Key People Die - Forbes.com: Summary: Companies buy life insurance policies on their employees and use them to preserve money they will need for deferred pay, bonuses and pensions. When a covered employee dies, the employer receives the proceeds of the policy. Tax Implications: The annual premium payments are not deductible so those dollars have already been taxed. When an employee dies, some or all of the death benefits are not taxed, but it is income and will eventually be taxed when profits are distributed. "Big Government&quo t;: The Treasury Department wants people to begin paying taxes on the dividend yields of vested life insurance. When the insured dies, the death benefit enters the economy and, one way or another, will be taxed. Even if sitting in a bank account, interest is taxed. If the government begins taxing dividends on these policies they will become less attractive and there will be fewer big death benefits to tax. We should all hope that efforts to tax life insurance dividend interest fail.
• Banks Use Life Insurance to Fund Bonuses - WSJ.com: Companies are holding life-insurance policies on hundreds of thousands of their workers, with themselves as the beneficiaries. Companies deposit money into the contracts, which are like big, nondeductible IRAs, and allocate the cash among investments that grow tax-free. Over time, employers receive tax-free death benefits when employees, former employees and retirees die. According to accounting rules for life insurance, gains on the investments -- from stocks, hedge funds, bonds and the like -- aren't just tax free, but are reported as income each quarter. Otherwise, companies couldn't add gains from securities as income until they sold them, and they would be taxed. Cited by Citi as "an attractive use of capital," and for "the tax-free nature of the death proceeds." ;
• Rent control: Bronx tenants speak up about landlord increases

Fri Jun 12

• Home buyer blues: Prices drop, but property taxes don't

Wed Jun 10

• Help the Poor, Get a Deduction, Win a House. Potential Trifecta: House Raffle to ulitmately benefit poor. Intersting concept.

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