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Reduce estate taxes

Use trusts, discounts, and gifting to minimize your estate tax burden.
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Exceed gift exemption

Strategically give above the limit without triggering heavy taxes.
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Give money to spouse

Structure spousal transfers to stay tax-efficient and compliant.
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Give money to kids

Transfer wealth to children while reducing your taxable estate.
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Donate to charity

Lower your estate tax with charitable trusts and planned giving.
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Preserve family wealth through custom legacy and tax strategies.
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These are the strategies that can help you reduce your taxes and keep more

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Non-grantor Trust

A non-grantor trust is an irrevocable trust treated as a separate taxpayer for income tax purposes. It's commonly used to shift income to beneficiaries in lower-tax brackets or to avoid state income tax in high-tax jurisdictions. Unlike grantor trusts, the grantor has no retained powers, so the trust—not the grantor—pays tax on its income.

A non-grantor trust is an irrevocable trust treated as a separate taxpayer for income tax purposes.

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Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust

An IDGT is a type of irrevocable trust that is optimized for estate tax savings popular for individuals who either expect to be significantly over the lifetime exemption amount, or live in a low-tax state and expect to be at least somewhat over the lifetime exemption amount. The key feature of IDGTs is that they are disregarded for income-tax purposes but not for gift and estate tax purposes.

An irrevocable trust used to reduce estate taxes, where the grantor pays income tax but the assets are removed from their estate.

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Spousal Lifetime Access Trust

Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts can be game changers for high-net-worth couples wanting the best of all worlds: tax efficiency by moving assets out of their taxable estates, asset protection and financial support in case it is needed. Couples set up SLATs primarily to move appreciating assets out of their estate.

Lets one spouse gift assets out of their estate while retaining indirect access through the other, balancing tax and flexibility.

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Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust

ILITs are an efficient way of leveraging the power of life insurance to grow your wealth tax-free and pass it on to your heirs seamlessly. When you hold a life insurance policy inside one of these trusts, you can shelter the proceeds from estate taxes, protect assets from creditors, and provide long-term financial security for your loved ones.

Holds life insurance outside your estate to avoid estate taxes, protect from creditors, and pass wealth to heirs tax-free.

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Crummey Trust

With a Crummey trust, you can give meaningful gifts to your loved ones, every year in a tax optimized way that uses your annual exemption to minimize the value of your estate lost to gift & estate taxes. You can  choose to keep paying the trust’s income taxes yourself, and those tax payments can be seen as additional gifts that don’t reduce your annual gift limit.

Allows annual tax-free gifts to a trust by giving beneficiaries temporary withdrawal rights, reducing estate size over time.

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Charitable Lead Annuity Trust

A CLAT is a tax-advantaged structure designed for individuals with highly appreciated assets they have already sold. It allows you to reduce or offset capital gains taxes by contributing funds to the trust, which makes fixed annual payments to a charitable organization for a set period. At the end of the trust term, the remaining assets are distributed to your chosen beneficiaries, potentially with significant tax savings.

Donates annual income to charity while preserving the remainder for your heirs—ideal for offsetting capital gains on sold assets.

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Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts

With a Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT), you can transfer the future growth of your assets to your loved ones in a highly tax-efficient way. You retain a fixed annuity payment for a set term, and if the trust assets grow at a rate higher than the IRS’s assumed interest rate, all that extra appreciation goes to your beneficiaries free of gift tax. Meanwhile, you can continue paying the trust’s income taxes yourself, effectively creating additional gifts without using up more of your lifetime gift or estate tax exemption

You keep fixed payments while future asset growth passes to heirs tax-free, assuming returns beat a set IRS rate.

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