Financial planning

Most people have never heard of the alternative minimum tax, and those that have probably would love to forget about it and wish that it would just go away.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Employer anxiety about offering you a 401(k) plan is rising rapidly, and for potentially good—and expensive—reasons. Class-action lawyers are targeting a wider variety of alleged breaches of fiduciary duty in retirement offerings and suing a broader range of entities, including college and university 403(b) plans.

Longer lives and the prospect of weaker investment returns mean millennials will probably have to save more money, over a longer period of time, than their parents and grandparents.

For several decades, estate planners have been using entities such as family limited partnerships or family limited liability companies as an estate planning tool.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure saying a charitable remainder annuity trust that includes a sample provision in its governing agreement won’t be subject to a test that could disqualify it.

Donald Trump on Monday sought to cast Hillary Clinton’s economic program as an ineffective relic, and to reset his own presidential campaign after a string of missteps.

With the start of school just around the corner, taxpayers should be aware of the following tax breaks and deductions available for qualifying expenses, according to the audit defense service TaxAudit.com.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

John Napolitano of U.S. Wealth Management describes in this video some of the common mistakes made by CPAs who provide financial planning services for their clients.