A Practical Guide to Trusts
Total Credits: 8 including 8 Taxes - Technical
- Average Rating:
- 174
- Categories:
- ACPEN Tax Institute | Tax | IRS Approved
- Speaker:
- Arthur Werner
- Course Levels:
- Basic
- Duration:
- 8 Hours
Description
This course provides in-depth information to enable the practitioner to make a well-informed decision as to whether a trust is the appropriate vehicle for a client’s financial, estate, and/or asset protection plan, and, if so, how the trust can best be implemented and operated. Participants will learn about the many different types of trusts that can be harnessed to save clients income, estate, generation-skipping, and other taxes, at both the federal and state level.
Basic Course Information
Learning Objectives- Choose a practical understanding of when and how to implement and operate a trust in a client’s financial, estate, and/or asset protection plan
Major Subjects
- The role of the trustee and how to avoid problems
- How to use trusts to avoid probate
- How revocable living trusts are affected by income, gift, and estate taxes
- Marital deductions and marital and bypass trusts
- How an irrevocable trust can be the center of an estate plan
- Advantages of an irrevocable life insurance trust
- How to create a dynasty trust
- Why a GRIT, GRAT, GRUT, or QPRT can be a good estate planning tool
- Trust options to provide security for older clients
- Advantages, tax consequences, and limits on charitable contributions and private foundations
- Charitable remainder and charitable lead trust issues
- How trusts can serve as asset protection devices Business trust issues
Course Materials
| Important CPE Credit Instructions_READ BEFORE WEBCAST UPDATED (442.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| A Practical Guide to Trusts Handout (1.7 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| IRS Credit Request Form (267 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Speaker
Arthur Werner Related Seminars and Products
Werner-Rocca Seminars, Ltd.
Arthur Joseph Werner, JD, MS (Taxation), is the president and is a shareholder in the lecture firm of Werner-Rocca Seminars, Ltd. Mr. Werner’s lecture topic specialties include business, tax, financial and estate planning for high net worth individuals. In addition, Mr. Werner is an adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at the Philadelphia University. Mr. Werner received his B.S. in Accounting and his M.S. in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School.
Mr. Werner lectures extensively in the areas of Estate Planning, Financial Planning, and Estate and Gift Taxation to Certified Public Accountants and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 2500 eight-hour seminars over the past twenty-five years as well as numerous webinars and video presentations. Mr. Werner has been rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, was awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in the State of Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.
Dates
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Tue, Apr 08, 2025 - 10:00am to 05:47pm CDT
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Mon, Apr 21, 2025 - 08:00am to 03:47pm CDT
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Sat, May 03, 2025 - 09:00am to 04:47pm CDT
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Tue, May 13, 2025 - 10:00am to 05:47pm CDT
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Mon, May 26, 2025 - 08:00am to 03:47pm CDT
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Tue, Jun 17, 2025 - 10:00am to 05:47pm CDT
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Mon, Jun 30, 2025 - 08:00am to 03:47pm CDT
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Additional Info
Basic Course Information
Prerequisites NoneAdvanced Preparation None
Designed For CPAs, EAs, attorneys, bankers, and financial planners
Original Recording Date 05/2023
Course Developer Werner-Rocca Seminars
Date Added to Catalog 03/31/2023
Yellow Book No
Additional Information
Complaint Resolution PolicyPlease contact Anne Taylor for any complaints. anne.taylor@acpen.com, (972-377-8199).
Official Registry Statement
Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
Instructional Delivery Method
Group Internet Based
Course Registration Requirements
Online Registration
Refund/Cancellation Policy
Please contact the ACPEN help desk 1-877-602-9877 or help@acpen.com if you wish to cancel your attendance for a previously purchased webcast and are requesting a refund or transfer.
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