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Making the Best of Bad Situations: Part 3 (Gambling, AMT, Financial and Estate Planning, College)


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Taxes - Technical

Average Rating:
   10
Categories:
ACPEN Industry Institute |  ACPEN Tax Institute |  Industry |  IRS Approved |  Tax
Faculty:
Arthur Werner |  Anthony J. Rocca, J.D.
Course Levels:
Update
Duration:
2 Hours
License:

Dates


Description

This course helps the practitioner understand planning considerations and potential problems when certain "bad situations" happen to his/her client. The focus of this course is on the tax and non-tax issues of various circumstances that a client classifies as bad situations including gambling, AMT, kiddie tax, college, financial and estate planning and losing a job.

 

**Please Note:  If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to leighanne.conroy@acpen.com.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

*Identify examples of how a tax professional can integrate income tax planning with one or more of the three general planning areas

*Recognize strategies that can be used to mitigate the AMT

*Describe a strategy for parents to reduce the tax impact of the Kiddie Tax

*Recognize strategies that do not have the risk of disturbing the taxpayer's other financial planning goals

*Differentiate between a springing power of attorney and a general power of attorney

*Differentiate problems with not saving for college

*Recognize positive outcomes that occur when a client loses their job

*Recognize Schedule A gambling loss deductions allowed by clients

*Identify proper gambling losses and definition of professional gamblers


Major Subjects

*Gambling Losses

*AMT Strategies

*Kiddie Tax

*Financial Planning Issues for College 

*Estate Planning Issues

*Losing Your Job


Course Materials

Faculty

Arthur Werner's Profile

Arthur Werner Related Seminars and Products

Werner-Rocca Seminars, Ltd.


Arthur Joseph Werner, JD, MS (Taxation), is the president and is a shareholder in the lecture firm of Werner-Rocca Seminars, Ltd. Mr. Werner’s lecture topic specialties include business, tax, financial and estate planning for high net worth individuals.  In addition, Mr. Werner is an adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at the Philadelphia University.  Mr. Werner received his B.S. in Accounting and his M.S. in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School.


Mr. Werner lectures extensively in the areas of Estate Planning, Financial Planning, and Estate and Gift Taxation to Certified Public Accountants and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 2500 eight-hour seminars over the past twenty-five years as well as numerous webinars and video presentations. Mr. Werner has been rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, was awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in the State of Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.


Anthony J. Rocca, J.D.'s Profile

Anthony J. Rocca, J.D. Related Seminars and Products


Anthony is a shareholder in the lecture firm of Werner-Rocca Seminars, Ltd. Anthony is also a lawyer admitted to practice in both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey. His offices are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His areas of practice include corporate business transactions, estate planning and administration and tax matters. Anthony received his B.A. in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University. He holds a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.

Anthony lectures extensively in the areas of protection of assets, preservation of wealth, business transactions and other tax matters. He has presented more than 1000 eight-hour seminars to various state accounting societies and other organizations, including stock brokerage houses, financial planners, and insurance agents, in educating their clients in various planning techniques and tax issues. He has also presented numerous webinars and video presentations.


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For *CPAs *EAs *Attorneys *Financial Planners
Original Recording Date 05/08/2017
Yellow Book No
Course Developer Arthur Werner
Date Added to Catalog 05/04/17

Additional Information

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Official Registry Statement

Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org


Instructional Delivery Method Group Internet Based
Course Registration Requirements Online Registration
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