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Tax Planning

Tax Law Changes for 2023

{2 minutes to read} In the beginning of the year, we try and create a communication to all of our friends and clients, and people we know, about what changes are taking place from a tax perspective. There are lots of changes every January, and this year is no exception. 

Each year, […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2023-04-24T16:25:27+00:00April 4th, 2023|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Estate Planning — The Use it or Lose it Scenario

{3 minutes to read}  Today, I want to reflect on some of the issues about estate planning based upon our current estate tax rules. Under the Trump Administration, the estate tax rules were changed very liberally to allow people to give away a tremendous amount of money, creating great opportunities to transfer wealth to the […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2023-04-04T14:55:35+00:00March 30th, 2023|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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iCLAT Interview w/ Brad Gornt – Part 2

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Michael Fliegelman:

We are back again for Part 2 of our discussion about Roth conversions and how to offset the income tax generated by that conversion. We are here with Mr. Brad Gornto, who can help in this kind of charitable planning. And Brad, in Part 1 of our discussion, you […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-10-31T10:36:53+00:00October 15th, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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iCLAT Interview w/ Brad Gornto

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Michael Fliegelman:

Previously, we discussed in detail, qualified plans — IRAs, 401(k)s, pension plans — and how these may be great tools to accumulate wealth, which is like the first chapter in financial planning. Chapter 2 is when we hit retirement age and take a distribution, and Chapter 3 is wealth […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-10-31T10:36:45+00:00October 1st, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Update on Estate Planning and Taxes

{3 minutes to read} Recently, the House created a new proposal for estate tax. Over the next few months, many other taxes are going to potentially be changed and by the end of the year, we are more than likely to have sweeping tax law changes. So, this article is an alert to take advantage […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-10-22T19:03:58+00:00October 22nd, 2021|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Estate Planning 2021

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As the Biden administration ramps up, it’s inevitable that there are going to be some tax law changes. The extent of those changes obviously can’t be predicted, but I think it’s a good topic for people to consider.

Donald Trump put in a very large increase to the amount of wealth that can […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-07-09T15:44:58+00:00July 9th, 2021|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Purchasing Life Insurance with Before-Tax Dollars

Today I want to talk about life insurance and how it can be purchased. Most of the time people buy life insurance with after-tax dollars — dollars that they’ve already paid taxes on. Since the SECURE Act was signed into law, one of the things we are doing more and more is looking at ways […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-01-25T11:54:36+00:00January 25th, 2021|Blog, Financial Planning, Insurance Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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The Season of Giving

{4 minutes to read} ‘Tis the season, as they say, for gifting. So today we’re going to focus on that task. We are in a unique time period where, under the recent tax law change that Donald Trump put in, the ability for ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth people to gift a large amount of money is […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-12-16T11:44:52+00:00December 16th, 2020|Blog, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Employee Benefit Programs

{4 minutes to read}  Many times the first level of employee benefit programs for business owners is to establish a pension or 401(k) plan. Many times, however, business owners want to do something additional for, let’s say a key employee. There are areas of benefits that allow people who own businesses to provide a benefit […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-10-07T11:58:29+00:00October 7th, 2020|Blog, General, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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The SECURE Act of 2019

{2 minutes to read}  Today, I want to talk about new retirement plan rules based upon the SECURE Act of 2019. SECURE stands for Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement and there are some major changes for qualified […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-03-25T10:48:57+00:00March 22nd, 2020|Blog, Financial Planning, Insurance Planning, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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