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Podcast: Big Picture Retirement®
Episode: Unpacking the New IRS Estate Planning Memo
Description: In today's episode, we examine the recent IRS Chief Counsel Memorandum, which introduces significant changes to one of the cornerstone strategies in estate planning. We explore how these new guidelines impact assets placed in trusts like intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs) and spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs). These trusts have traditionally been used to 'freeze' asset values for estate tax purposes while benefiting from more favorable individual income tax rates. But there's a core piece of this that is going to look different moving forward. If you're thinking "I love the Big Picture Retirement podcast" please consider...