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Advice to Indiana Jones from the Knight of the Holy Grail: “But choose wisely for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.”1
Another knight, the Knight of the Tax Table, tells us that doing a charitable remainder trust (CRT) the right way enables your clients to make significant charitable gifts, provide life income for themselves (and others) and save taxes. Doing it the wrong way will take away income, gift and estate tax charitable deductions. And, once you encounter the ire of the Internal Revenue Service, your clients can also lose marital deductions and have to pay otherwise avoidable capital gains taxes.
Here are some common and not-so-common pitfalls. If you’ve already fallen in, see “Patchi...
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