The Complete Guide to Preparing Forms 706 and 709
Description:
Tax compliance issues at death are sometimes confusing to practitioners because many lack experience in this area. This course provides you with a practical understanding of the issues involved in preparing the federal estate tax return, Form 706; the federal gift tax return, Form 709; and the decedent's final federal income tax return, Form 1040.
Highlights:
How to prepare a federal estate tax return (Form 706) How to prepare a federal gift tax return (Form 709) How to comply with "Portability" Issues involved in the preparation of the decedent's final federal income tax return (Form 1040) Various postmortem estate planning issues involved in the preparation of the abovementioned tax returns Complete understanding of estate and gift taxation
Objectives:
At the end of this course, you will be able to: Recognize the components of Federal Forms 706 and 709.
Prerequisites:
None
Designed For:
CPAs, EAs, and attorneys
Arthur WernerArt is currently a shareholder in the lecture firm of Werner-Rocca Seminars, LTD. His areas of expertise include business, tax, financial, and estate planning for high net worth individuals. In addition, Art is an adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at Philadelphia University. He received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and his Master of Science in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar. Art lectures extensively to certified public accountants, enrolled agents, insurance agents, and financial planners in the areas of estate planning, financial planning, and estate and gift taxation. He has presented well in excess of 1,500 seminars over the past fifteen years. Art has been rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs, awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.