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Trusts, Estates & Probate

Trusts and Taxes in New York From A to Z

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 8 Total
New York CLE Approved 8 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6.5 Total
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6 hours 34 minutes
Antar Jones
Michael Zapson
Leslie Levin
With Antar P. Jones from Law Office of Antar P. Jones, PLLC + 2 others
Recorded February 11, 2026.
Product ID 101471

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Overview

Understand Tax Consequences and Opportunities of Key Estate Planning Tools

This course offers a straightforward overview of trust tax consequences and planning strategies that will help you minimize tax burdens and ensure IRS compliance. Identify key trust structures that work and don't. Predict tax effects of trusts on grantors and estates. Learn how income tax is incurred, calculated, and reported. Build a solid tax foundation for your practice. Register today!

  • Get a clear overview of current trust and tax laws.
  • Understand tax treatment and consequences of top trust structures.
  • Avoid unnecessary tax burden with effective delineation of income and principle.
  • Understand how the legal aspects of trusts affect accounting.
  • Learn what must and should be done with trust tax returns.
  • Evaluate existing trusts for their effectiveness in minimizing tax.
  • Get a practical overview of what happens and what can be done when a trust becomes irrevocable.
  • Guard your professional reputation with a custom-tailored legal ethics guide for your practice.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Trusts Created for Tax Reduction - What Works and What Doesn't
  2. Trust Taxation: Income, Capital Gains, Distributions
  3. Legal Ethics in Trusts Practice
  4. State and Federal Tax Rules Update
  5. Types of Trusts and How They're Taxed Under the New Tax Laws
  6. Gift Taxation of Donations and Other Transfers of Trusts
  7. What Happens When a Trust Becomes Irrevocable

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Product ID 101471

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 8 Total
New York CLE Approved 8 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6.5 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Trusts Created for Tax Reduction - What Works and What Doesn't

    1. Fixing Obsolete Irrevocable Trusts
    2. Marital Trusts
    3. Charitable Trusts
    4. Defective Grantor Trusts
    5. IRA Trusts
    6. QPRTs Today
    7. GST Trust Provisions
    8. Other Tax-Efficient Trust Structures and Provisions
    9. Drafting for Flexibility to Respond to Future Tax Law Changes

  2. Trust Taxation: Income, Capital Gains, Distributions

    1. When a Trust can Use a Grantor's Tax ID and When it Needs Its Own Tax ID
    2. Structuring Trust Income Taxation
    3. Accounting vs. Taxable Income: Taxable Income Calculations
    4. Distributable Net Income
    5. Capital Gains Tax
    6. Basis Management
    7. Trust Deductions, Elections, Expenses
    8. Qualifying for the 199A 20% Deduction
    9. Discretionary Distributions in Lieu of Tax
    10. Tax Consequences of Distributions
    11. Accumulation Distribution for Some Complex Trusts
    12. Form 1041 Preparation
    13. Tax Elections and Other Post-Mortem Tax Planning

  3. Legal Ethics in Trusts Practice

    1. Guarding Confidentiality
    2. Conflicts of Interest When Representing Couples
    3. Fiduciary Liability for Nonpayment of Taxes

  4. State and Federal Tax Rules Update

    1. Income, Capital Gains, and Tax Basis Step-Up
    2. Estate, Gift, GST Tax, and Portability
    3. SECURE Act, TCJA, CARES Act, ARP Act, and Other Recent Federal Laws
    4. Trust Tax Deductions: New Rules You Need to Know
    5. New Charitable Gift Substantiation Rules
    6. State Trust Decanting Statutes

  5. Types of Trusts and How They're Taxed Under the New Tax Laws

    1. Revocable vs. Irrevocable
    2. Simple vs. Complex Trusts
    3. Intervivos vs. Testamentary
    4. Grantor Trust Status and Reporting (Obtaining Grantor Status, Toggling it On and Off, Federal and State Requirements)
    5. Trust Asset Valuation and Tax Consequences

  6. Gift Taxation of Donations and Other Transfers of Trusts

    1. Gift Tax
    2. Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
    3. Valuation Discounts
    4. Lifetime Exemption Amounts and Portability
    5. Marital Deduction, QTIP
    6. Annual Exclusion Gifts
    7. Filing of IRS Form 709

  7. What Happens When a Trust Becomes Irrevocable

Who Should Attend

This basic level online seminar is designed for:

  • Attorneys
  • Accountants
  • Financial Planners
  • Tax Professionals
  • Trustees and Trust Protectors
  • Fiduciaries
  • Estate Planners
  • Paralegals

Speakers

Antar P Jones
Antar P.
Jones
Law Office of Antar P. Jones, PLLC
Michael G Zapson
Michael G.
Zapson
Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman LLP
Leslie E Levin
Leslie E.
Levin
Hinman Howard & Kattell, LLP
Speaker bio
Antar P Jones

Antar P. Jones

Law Office of Antar P. Jones, PLLC
Antar Jones

is the founder of the Law Office of Antar P. Jones, PLLC located in Brooklyn, New York. A significant portion of his practice is devoted toward his providing advice and counsel to fiduciaries, heirs and beneficiaries on complex estate administration and tax matters. Mr. Jones's practice involves many complex post-mortem taxation issues. In addition to having advised clients regarding insurance trusts, he has advised fiduciaries on taxation matters concerning how living trusts are taxed once the grantor has passed. Also, Mr. Jones has done extensive work concerning the annuity reporting requirements of Qualified Domestic Trusts, in addition to how specifically marital deductions operate with respect to such trusts where there is a foreign spouse from a country that has a tax treaty with the United States. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, where he is active in the Estate and Trust Administration Committee of the Trusts and Estates Section. Mr. Jones earned his LL.M degree in taxation, from the graduate program in taxation at New York Law School. He earned his J.D. degree from the New York Law School.

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Michael G Zapson

Michael G. Zapson

Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman LLP
Michael Zapson

is a partner at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman LLP. He concentrates his practice in trusts and estates, and trust and estate litigation. Mr. Zapson also maintains a real estate zoning and land use practice. He represents executors, trustees, real property owners, national companies, REITs lenders and brokers. Mr. Zapson is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, Nassau County Bar Association and Long Beach Lawyers Association. He earned his B.A. degree from Cornell University and J.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Leslie E Levin

Leslie E. Levin

Hinman Howard & Kattell, LLP
Leslie Levin

is a partner at Hinman, Howard & Kattell LLP and works out of the White Plains and New York City offices. She is a member of the wills, trusts and estates, elder law and guardianships and not-for-profit corporations and foundations practice groups. Ms. Levin practices in estate planning, probate, estate and trust administration, gift and generation-skipping tax transfer planning, creation and termination of not-for-profit organizations, charitable planning, special needs and disability planning, Medicaid planning, and elder law. As part of her practice, she works with litigators in developing strategy and offering expertise in the realm of trusts and estates litigation. Ms. Levin also serves as executor for client's estates and as a trustee for a number of trusts. She earned her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, high honors, from Brandeis University and her J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Ms. Levin is admitted to practice in both New York and Connecticut.

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