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Of course, certain lawyers and other estate planners (your correspondent among them) will also have to turn to more productive work when the law no longer makes it easy to propose a six - figure tax - saving strategy after just 15 minutes of conversation with a new client.

In fact, the final tax bill extends the pass - through deduction even to pass - throughs that aren't paying wages or creating jobs — in other words, wealthy real estate investors like Trump or Jared Kushner benefit from the new law.

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Policy agendas for important issues like the 421a tax abatement and New York City rent laws are being set by publicly elected leaders who have become dependent on the real estate industry's onslaught of millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

Empire Zone tax credits also went to real estate management companies, power plants, lawyers and accountants - people in industries that were not in danger of leaving New York state, and people who were in the best position to know the laws and its loopholes.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says he'd first like to hear an explanation from Speaker Sheldon Silver about the details of alleged payments from a law firm specializing in real estate taxes.

Deutsch says the heirs to someone with a $ 10 million estate could see a 50 percent reduction in the estate taxes they would pay, if New York raises the threshold for taxation to the $ 5.25 million now in federal law.

The state Legislature has sway over key real estate laws affecting Glenwood, including the 421 - a tax abatement program and rent regulation in New York City.

Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told officials at a powerful real - estate firm that there was no problem with him taking fees from a law firm to which they steered property - tax cases — even though they feared «adverse consequences» from pulling out of the deal, according to new court papers filed Monday.

Federal authorities are reportedly investigating New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for payments he received from a law firm that seeks real estate tax...

The governor also received $ 120,000 from two LLCs tied to Fisher Brothers, a New York City real estate firm that benefitted from lucrative tax breaks that were tucked into a 2013 housing bill Cuomo signed into law.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has served as speaker of the state assembly since 1994, has been under federal investigation over payments he received from a small law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, that specializes in New York City real estate taxes.

At least 27 clients of Silver's recently revealed second law firm received state - authorized real estate tax breaks, a Capital New York analysis has found.

«Details of the specific charges against Silver were unclear on Wednesday night, but one of the people with knowledge of the matter said they stemmed from payments Mr. Silver received from a small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes,» the Times reported.

Some of the same leaders were also in negotiations with top players in the city's real estate community, trying to set more favorable terms of a state law that gives tax abatements for new developments.

A number of witnesses thus far have testified about Silver's referral arrangement with the real estate law firm Goldman & Iryami, which worked to reduce the taxes some of the biggest real estate firms in the state paid to New York City.

The reauthorization also included a provision that suspended the law unless the Real Estate Board of New York and the construction trade unions agreed on the wages that would be paid to construction workers hired to build the projects receiving the tax exemption.

Local - level groups in New York with disparate interest ranging from real estate to law enforcement on Wednesday sent a letter to members of Congress in a last - ditch effort to save state and local tax deductions.

Silver was accused of receiving $ 700,000 in payments from one law firm in exchange for using his official position to obtain recurring tax certiorari legal claims of two real estate developer clients with business before the New York State Legislature.

The real estate industry is desperate to renew a tax break known as 421 - a, which spurs new apartment building development, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says developers won't get that renewed unless they agree to change the rent laws.

The leader of the state Senate, John Flanagan, said he'd allow senators to go home for a few days, after they finish their business Thursday evening, even though there are no agreements with the Assembly or Cuomo on the New York City rent laws, a related tax break for real estate developers, and an education tax credit.

The Senate is the last word before Gov. Cuomo on some of the most important issues to the real estate industry, including the 421a developer tax exemption and New York City's rent stabilization laws.

The federal inquiry focused on payments that Mr. Silver received from a small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), says he'd like to hear from Speaker Sheldon Silver about the details of the speaker's alleged payments from a law firm specializing in real estate taxes.

The other part of the inquiry by Mr. Bharara's office and the F.B.I. focused in part on payments that Mr. Silver received from a real estate law firm, which is not identified in the complaint but which a person briefed on the matter said was Goldberg & Iryami, which specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes.

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DeFrancisco says in the next few weeks it will become clear whether Skelos can indeed be effective as leader, and the Senate negotiates with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the Assembly over renewal of New York City's rent control laws and a related property tax break for real estate developers,

Federal authorities are investigating «substantial» payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm that seeks real estate tax reductions for commercial and residential properties in New York City, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The Times reported the charges stemmed from payments that Mr. Silver received from a small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes.

In one scheme described in court papers, he asked a pair of real estate developers to hire a small law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, which seeks reductions in New York City property taxes on behalf of its clients.

Leonard Litwin, a rental - property developer who began with his father's Depression - era plant nursery on Long Island, built a New York City residential real estate empire and paid millions to Republican and Democratic leaders to ensure tax breaks, government financing and favorable rent laws, died on Sunday at his home on Long Island, in Melville.

In a passage starting on p. 160, Ravitch presents the involvement of New York hedge - fund managers in charter schools at the beginning of a messy discussion of colocation of charter schools in New York City, the ties between charter schools and tax credits, similar ties with investment - based visas, real - estate operations with charter - school education as a loss leader, and the ideology of profit - motivated charter - school model laws pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Fewer estates will be subject to the federal estate tax under the new tax law, but estate planning is still important for investors.

New law: The new law caps the deduction for all state and local taxes — income, sales, real estate, and personal property taxes — at $ 10,0New law: The new law caps the deduction for all state and local taxes — income, sales, real estate, and personal property taxes — at $ 10,0new law caps the deduction for all state and local taxes — income, sales, real estate, and personal property taxes — at $ 10,000.

Under the new law, individuals can now exclude up to $ 11.2 million from estate and gift taxes.

The new tax law will likely benefit investors in real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships as a result of a particular tax break afforded to pass - through entities.

Plus, 5 questions to ask your estate planner after the new tax law, and what happens to your social media estate after you die?

For the state estate tax purposes, whether the laws of New York or California apply may often turn on which state Ms. Rivers was deemed to be domiciled in at the time of her death.

More importantly, from an estate tax perspective, the estate would very much want to avoid New York's burdensome estate tax and to benefit from the laws of California, which hasn't had a state estate tax for those domiciled there since Jan. 1, 2005, when it was phased out under the provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Atax perspective, the estate would very much want to avoid New York's burdensome estate tax and to benefit from the laws of California, which hasn't had a state estate tax for those domiciled there since Jan. 1, 2005, when it was phased out under the provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Atax and to benefit from the laws of California, which hasn't had a state estate tax for those domiciled there since Jan. 1, 2005, when it was phased out under the provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Atax for those domiciled there since Jan. 1, 2005, when it was phased out under the provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation ATax Relief Reconciliation Act.

If the specter of a One - Year Estate Tax repeal was not enough to get Congress to agree on new laws, I have trouble seeing the specter of a $ 1 million exemption being a greater motivation.

Ansell practices tax and estate planning law in Bedford, New Hampshire.

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Real estate partner Mitchell Berg and tax partner Scott Sontag published a quarterly real estate column in the February 15 issue of the New York Law Journal.

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