Guiding You Through The Legal Process
Georgia residents who are working on their estate plans should pay careful attention to their beneficiary designations on retirement accounts, life insurance policies and other assets. Often, beneficiary designations are overlooked even when people are otherwise...
Receiving a notice of audit from the Internal Revenue Service is something that many Georgia residents have worried about at one time or another. The penalties for concealing income or inflating expenses can be severe, but the IRS is generally given only three years...
Georgia residents who called the Internal Revenue Service with questions during the 2015 tax season will likely remember spending long periods on hold or being abruptly disconnected. Only 37 percent of the calls made to the IRS between Jan. 1 and April 18 of that year...
According to the annual report delivered by the National Taxpayer Advocate, the Internal Revenue Service's plans to go high-tech could reduce taxpayer rights and increase filing costs in Georgia and nationwide. The federal tax agency has spent millions of dollars to...
Many Georgia residents are concerned that long term health care costs uncovered by Medicare or Medicaid will eat up their inheritances and leave them little or nothing to pass on to their loved ones. To avoid this situation, it is not uncommon for older individuals or...
An increase in the estate tax exemption for 2016 that takes individual estates valued at $5.45 million or less out of danger of being subject to federal estate taxes has now shifted taxpayer concern in Georgia and throughout the country from estate tax liabilities to...
In 2016, an estate worth less than $10,000 will be taxed at a marginal tax rate of 18 percent. At the top of the estate tax tables, an estate worth more than a $1 million will pay $345,800 plus 40 percent of the amount in excess of $1 million. While this may seem like...
Georgia residents may be interested to learn that House Republicans recently passed legislation that would greatly benefit charitable organizations. House Republican leaders have already been told by both Senate Democrats and the White House that they will help to...
It is not uncommon for Georgia residents to make mistakes when filing a tax return due to how complicated the process can be. If they have multiple bank accounts and investments, they may have a number of sources of income, and it might not always be clear how to...
Many Georgia residents actively trade stocks and other securities in order to increase the value of their personal investment portfolios. In some cases, people's efforts are hampered by the $3,000 deduction cap for capital losses that the IRS places on such...
