Estate Planning
Effective estate planning facilitates the orderly transfer of assets to your beneficiaries, provides security for your surviving spouse, and can reduce or eliminate the tax due on the transfer of your assets.
By taking into consideration gift taxes, estate taxes, generation-skipping taxes, and personal and business income taxes, we can prepare the optimum combination of the documents listed below and guide you through the complex process of getting your estate planning in order.
- Last Will and Testament
- Power of Attorney
- Healthcare Power of Attorney
- Medical Directive
- HIPAA Agreement
- Trust
- Family Limited Partnership
Probate and Estate Administration
A comprehensive knowledge of Probate and Estate administration enables our attorneys to carefully guide you through the Probate process, no matter how large or small the estate may be.
Asset Protection
An asset protection, or wealth preservation, plan makes the enforcement of judgements against protected assets more difficult and allows the owner of protected assets to retain substantial control over these assets. Our firm can assist you with an asset protection plan that may include a family limited partnership.
Guardianship Administration
Our attorneys can guide you through the Guardianship process by which the personal well-being or the assets of an incapacitated person or a minor child are managed.
Tax Preparation
Our significant investment in computerized tax preparation and research software enables us to accurately and efficiently prepare returns for various types of entities including individuals, corporations, partnerships, trusts, estates, and not-for-profit organizations.
IRS Representation
During our years of experience dealing with many taxing authorities, we have achieved a level of competence that can ensure our clients they are being properly represented before the various federal and state tax agencies.
Payroll Services
As a business grows, it must hire more employees, which can result in increased payroll administration. We can assist you in implementing the controls necessary to ensure a reliable, efficient, and effective payroll system. Our firm can also help you develop a payroll system and prepare all necessary payroll tax returns in a timely manner.
Tax Planning
Tax planning is an essential element of the tax preparation process. By making tax planning part of your overall business strategy, you can use our experience and access to the most current new developments in the tax laws to minimize both your current and future tax liabilities. Whether you are an individual or a multi-tiered partnership, our experienced staff can develop tax strategies that take advantage of new tax laws and legislation.
Tax Services
We prefer to take a proactive versus reactive approach to tax services. By keeping current on new tax laws and legislation, we are in a position to identify key tax planning opportunities that minimize both your current and future tax liabilities. We provide our individual and business clients with the taxation expertise and knowledge that they deserve throughout the year. Tax services offered include but are not limited to:
- Tax planning & return preparation
- Individuals, Corporations, Partnerships, LLCs/LLPs, Estates, trusts & gift, Not-for-Profit Organizations
- Taxing authority representation
- Multiple scenario tax projections
- Tax effects of buying/selling a business
Business Entity Selection and Setup
Choosing the form of entity for your business (e.g. "S" corporation, sole proprietor, limited liability company…) is a crucial decision that can have longstanding tax implications, positive or negative. We can assist you in evaluating the pros and cons of each entity type to help you determine the most advantageous form of business for your company.
Business Succession Planning
Effective coordination of the transition of your business to your successors is critical to ensure its continued success once you decide to remove yourself from the company's day to day operations. With a solid background in tax and other financial matters, we are fully qualified to address the complex issues of business continuation and can assist you in developing a strategically sound plan.
Buying & Selling a Business
Structuring the purchase or sale of a business properly is a critical step in the process of buying or selling a business. Our competent staff has experience to guide you through the acquisition/disposition process by addressing such issues as cash flow analysis and tax considerations.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Finding the right business partner for your company can be a difficult task. We can assist you in the merger or acquisition process by assessing such critical elements as tax considerations; product/service compatibility; competitive tactics and position; financial impact; and cash flow considerations.
Accounting Write-Up and Consultation
Meaningful, well-organized financial records ensure that your business operations will run more efficiently on a daily basis and are the foundation of a successful business. Our qualified staff can assist you with the day-to-day tasks associated with bookkeeping.
Pension & Profit Sharing Plans
Qualified retirement plans (e.g. defined-contribution or defined benefit plans, Keoghs, SEPs…) can provide significant tax advantages for closely held businesses and self-employed individuals. Our qualified staff can assist you in evaluating the type of pension plan that will best serve the retirement needs of you and your employees.
Other Services
Due to our diverse client base, we encounter a wide array of financial and tax issues. As a result, we have gained valuable experience over the years in numerous areas. We feel our ability to provide such a variety of services reflects our versatility and competency, as well as our dedication to quality client service.