Joseph Maier

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: IT’S ALL ABOUT LEADERSHIP… Structure

Loyal readers of this blog (thank you!) know that my position on succession planning is that success depends primarily on…

9 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: Why I Would Rather Be a Beneficiary… Part Two: Mimicking Ownership

Part one of this blog post focused on why trusts protect people from themselves and others. But, will our client’s…

9 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: Why I Would Rather Be a Beneficiary… Part One: Trusts Protect People from Themselves and Others

As a management tool, trusts accomplish two goals. One, they protect people from their own financial immaturity. For example, about…

9 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: Time for the Income Tax Tail to Start Wagging the Estate Planning Dog

Estate planners should now focus less on transfer taxes and more on income taxes when building a plan that provides…

9 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: The Time to Sell Might Be Now

Individuals who own Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS), depending on when the corporation was formed, may have the ability to…

9 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: Valuation Discounts May Be Under Attack by the Treasury

The IRS may very soon have another arrow in its quiver to attack valuation discounts on transfers of equity interests…

9 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: Estate PlanningTHE FIRST SIN — "Letting a Stranger Decide"

People describe an estate plan in a number of ways. Some people use very technical jargon, focusing on the specific…

9 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: The Seven Deadly Sins of Estate Planning

The statistics are surprising. Only 3 in 10 American adults have a Will, and a much lower percentage have the…

10 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: Succession PlanningTHE SEVENTH SIN — "Procrastination"

I hate the term procrastination.  Why?  It has a negative connotation.  I think instead, to be fair, when evaluating behavior…

10 years ago

Tax and Wealth Advisor Alert: Succession PlanningTHE SIXTH SIN — "Failure to Communicate"

Keen observers of human behavior know a couple of things to be true. 1. In the absence of information, people…

10 years ago