Estate and Trust

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We provide comprehensive tax planning and consulting to individuals, trusts and estates, and private foundations. Specializing in estate and trust tax planning, our focus is assisting individuals and families avoid probate by evaluating and reviewing estate-planning documents, titling of assets, trusts designations and beneficiaries, and asset valuations. Collaboratively working with your legal and business advisors, we help you plan for the future. Our estate and trust tax team includes accountants, certified public accountants (CPAs), and certified financial planner (CFP).

Life-Changing Circumstances

Many of our clients have experienced a life-changing circumstance in their lifetime such as marriage, divorce, birth of a child, or death of a loved one. We assist individuals and families in pre- and post-planning by providing advice in gifting techniques and related strategies.
In conjunction with legal and financial advisers, we ensure wills, trusts, and health care documents are properly in place. For pre- and post-mortem planning options relating to family members and beneficiaries, we review beneficiary designations on life insurance, annuities, and retirement accounts. With high income rates on trust returns, we assist trustees and family members in determining the best time to make distributions from trusts.

We can evaluate and offer advice regarding:
  • Annual gifting strategies
  • Estate and gift tax planning
  • Estate and gift tax returns
  • Charitable lead annuity trusts
  • Charitable remainder trusts
  • Family limited partnerships
  • Grantor retained trust
  • Grantor retained income trust
  • Judicial court accountings
  • Generation skipping transfer trust
  • Tax savings strategies
  • Trust accountings
  • Trust disposition flow-charting
  • Family foundations
  • Charitable gifting

Our team includes accountants, Arizona CPAs, and certified financial planners with extensive tax planning knowledge and experience. Contact Steven Forrest Buel, CPA to discuss your situation.

Steven Forrest Buel, CPA
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