Guests: Bob Keebler, CPA/PFS

In this episode, Bob Keebler, CPA/PFS, shares tax planning ideas that are important to consider with families of recent decedents amid record low oil prices and bond rates coupled with market losses, including:

How can you leverage the loss harvesting strategy to tactfully offset gains over the next few years without violating the wash sale rules or your fiduciary responsibility?
How do you create liquidity while coordinating with the alternative valuation date?
When do you fund pecuniary clauses and how do you avoid funding with appreciated securities?

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Tax planning for recent decedents amid COVID-19 {PFP Section}