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Navigating Complex Estate Planning Questions and Choices

This article outlines common complex estate-planning decisions, including how to transfer real estate to heirs, plan for long-term care (with notes on the five-year MassHealth lookback), structure tax-efficient charitable gifts, and address...

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A server delivering a meal to happy restaurant customers on Massachusetts Sales Tax Holiday.

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How Restaurant Owners Can Maximize the Upcoming Tax Holiday

Massachusetts consumers are already making plans to maximize the upcoming sales tax holiday. Massachusetts business owners should be doing the...

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More people are choosing to work past 65 like this woman drinking coffee at a work function. Medicare penalty.

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Working Past 65? Plan Ahead To Avoid a Medicare Penalty

If you’re nearing 65 and not ready to retire, you’re in good company. Currently, more than 10 million American workers are 65 or older. For...

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A family laughing and playing soccer in their yard getting sprayed with a hose. Gifting stocks

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What Gifting Stocks Can Mean for Your Tax & Estate Plans

Gifting stocks can reduce your taxable estate and shift future appreciation to someone else, but your cost basis carries over and gift tax rules...

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A retired couple cooking healthy food and talking about a bottle of red wine. Tax-efficient retirement.

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Tax Planning Strategies for a Tax-Efficient Retirement

Retirement should be one of the least stressful periods of your life. You deserve to enjoy those years, not spend them pinching pennies and worrying...

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Happy couple walking down a country road with their bulldog. Crypto Crash

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Crypto Crash Lessons: Don’t Invest What You Can’t Afford to Lose

2022 was a year of hard lessons for a lot of investors. If you started the year feeling optimistic about your new cryptocurrency investment, you...

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A teenager smiling from the driver’s seat window in a blue car. New driver car insurance.

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5 Things to Know When It’s Time for New Driver Car Insurance

For the new driver in your family, getting their driver’s license is probably a thrilling rite of passage. If that new driver is your teenager,...

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Guests throw confetti over the bride and groom as they walk past after their wedding ceremony. Joyful young couple celebrating their wedding day and embarking on their estate planning and marriage journey.

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Estate Planning and Marriage: Considerations for Couples

People often wonder how they should approach estate planning when they’re married. Should both spouses go together to see their estate planning...

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A father helps his son tie his shoe and considers estate planning and children.

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Estate Planning and Children: What Parents/Guardians Can Do

Estate planning and children go hand-in-hand. The birth of their first child is often the event that causes someone to call estate planning advisors...

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Four smiling friends at an outdoor restaurant clinking pints of beer. Restaurant cybersecurity.

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Restaurant Cybersecurity: Costly Risks for Restaurant Owners

A lot of things need to go right in order for your restaurant to succeed. You need asolid business plan, adequate financing, a budget, a tax plan,...

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