New legislation allows investors with capital gains tax liabilities to receive favorable tax treatment if those capital gains are invested in Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds. The goal is to tap into the significant amount of unrealized capital gains held by investors throughout the country for use in improving low-income urban and rural communities nationwide.
The selection of agent, executor, or trustee is an important decision when preparing your estate plan. Let us explain the difference.
The Internal Revenue Service and the State Department have quietly taken steps to implement another less-covered travel ban.
Reports abound of yet another IRS impersonation scam….Callers pose as IRS agents to demand tax payments on iTunes gift cards.
Once again, MFDD entered two relay teams of attorneys and staff in the 2014 Lehigh Valley Health Network VIA Marathon held on September 7, 2014. MFDD sponsored a water station in the marathon and the weather was perfect with a much-needed break in the heat wave! We are especially proud of Attorneys Tim Duckworth and […]
Tim Duckworth, Jr. was recently named to the Board of Directors of Bethlehem Catholic High School. The Board was instituted to help navigate the school’s success, as implemented by an initiative of the Diocese of Allentown in partnership with the Healey Education Foundation through its signature initiative, the Catholic School Development Program, a non profit […]
If you fail to create an estate plan and die without a will, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will, in essence, prepare one for you based on the law of “intestate” succession.
Pennsylvania remains as one of the few states to impose an inheritance, or so-called “death tax,” on the heirs of its deceased residents.
On July 2nd, the Obama Administration announced, via posts on the Whitehouse Blog and the Department of Treasury’s Treasury Notes Blog, that implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate provisions will be delayed until 2015.
