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Searching for a Business Attorney: What is Important to Business Owners?

In today’s complex business environment, having sound legal advice can help ensure long-term success for your business. This is especially true if you are a new business owner or going through structural or ownership changes.

If you are looking to employ legal counsel for your business, an important step is finding the right business attorney. This is an important process as he or she will be a key partner and guide you in certain business decisions.

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Understanding Death Taxes

Inheritance & Testament and taxes

Benjamin Franklin once wrote in a 1789 letter, “…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” This bit of wry humor is true, of course. And in our modern time, we’ve figured out how to combine those certainties with what are commonly known as “death taxes.”

As with most things today, the term “death taxes” is politically charged – the name was devised (likely in the 1990s) to describe estate and inheritance taxes by opponents looking to have those repealed. Unfortunately, their efforts were unsuccessful, but the morbid name stuck.

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