Update on Estate Taxes

On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed “The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act which significantly altered the rules concerning federal estate taxes, gift taxes and generation-skipping transfer taxes for the 2010 through 2012 tax years.  Once again the polarized Congress was incapable of reaching a bipartisan long term solution and instead…

Staying Safe During the Holidays

Do you have any idea what the number 10,839 represents? It is the number of people killed by an impaired driver in the United States last year.  In Arizona (AZ) alone, there were over 14,000 arrests made in 2009 for those driving while under-the-influence; and 4,500 of these came between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. …