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		<title>Gift &amp; Estate Taxes for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gift tax annual exemption will remain at $13,000 for 2012. Pursuant to the IRC, the exemption can rise only when the inflation adjustment produces an increase of $1,000 or more. In 2012, the applicable unified estate and gift tax exclusions will rise to $5,120,000, a $120,000 increase from 2011. The estate and gift tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Exemptions in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amount of personal and dependency exemptions for 2012 will increase to $3,800 from the 2011 level of $3,700.]]></description>
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		<title>Standard Deduction for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 standard deduction will increase for all taxpayers. The standard deduction amounts for 2012 will be $5,950, for single taxpayers; $8,700, for heads of households; $11,900, for married taxpayers filing jointly and surviving spouses; and $5,950, for married taxpayers filing separately. The standard deduction for dependents holds at $950 (or earned income plus $300).]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Brackets for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint returns. For married taxpayers filing jointly and surviving spouses, the maximum taxable income subject to the 10-percent bracket will rise from $17,000 in 2011, to $17,400 in 2012; the top of the 15-percent tax bracket will increase from $69,000 to $70,700. The bracket amounts for the remaining tax rates will show similarly proportionate increases: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estate Tax Exemption Increased</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS announced the estate tax exemption for 2012 will be $5.12 million (see news release), up from $5 million this year. The higher threshold is scheduled to expire at the end of 2012, and the $1 million limit under previous law is set to return. The annual exclusion for the gift tax will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking beyond cash (KIM #9)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has ruled privately that a donor can claim an income tax charitable deduction for the contribution of television broadcast licenses provided the donor properly substantiates them. Further ruled, the licenses are treated as long-term capital assets for purposes of section 170(e). One of the multitude of ways nonprofits can benefit from having discussions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone loses (KIM #8)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many nonprofits believe that their budgets are tight, particularly for investments expensed immediately versus over a longer term. We routinely are seeing organizations defer maintenance and skip consistently proven development upgrades, including IT, sales and marketing. These bypassed opportunities aren’t just a missed opportunity for the organization: the investment dearth hurts the community&#8217;s recovery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your donors are looking for tax info, are you providing it? (KIM #6)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, thanks to many of my clients who sent birthday greetings on June 8. I appreciate being remembered and your kindness. Even on that day, I found time to track the report provided to the Senate Appropriations Committee On Financial Services and General Government by IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman. One statistic that really stood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Deposit Insurance</title>
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		<comments>http://www.youngassociates.net/2011/bank-deposit-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is your money and to what degree is it protected? Often, account holders, such as businesses determine that their financial institution is insured through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and do not think about it again. During the financial crisis, Congress expanded coverage, but that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Relief for Businesses</title>
		<link>http://www.youngassociates.net/2011/tax-relief-for-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Re-authorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, which is expected to simulate the economy by providing tax relief to individuals and businesses. The Act reinstates many of the Bush-era tax cuts that expired in 2009 and extends others that were scheduled to expire [...]]]></description>
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