The new spending and U.S. tax law known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, keeps individual tax rates and important deductions in place, with significant tweaks. Outlined and summarized in this chart, taxpayers can explore the individual provisions and compare the OBBBA changes with the former tax law. Note the new areas of long-term certainty and plan around it.
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With the passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the BBB), there are both risks and tax planning opportunities. In this 10-minute interview, Brian Lucareli, director of Foley Private Client Services and co-chair of the Family Offices group, sits down with Jason Kohout, partner and fellow co-chair, to discuss the BBB. During this session, Jason focused on the estate gift tax exemptions and other planning opportunities.
Staying ahead of evolving tax laws and estate planning strategies is essential for preserving family wealth across generations. This session will provide the latest updates on tax regulations, trust structures, and estate planning considerations that impact family offices and wealth advisors. Experts will share insights on how recent legislative changes may influence planning strategies, along with best practices for optimizing tax efficiency, ensuring asset protection, and facilitating smooth generational transitions.
When businesses reach the limitations of basic accounting solutions and outgrow their systems, there are often operational inefficiencies that drain resources and limit growth potential. What once worked perfectly now creates bottlenecks. Reports that should take minutes can require days of manual work. Teams operating in silos may be working with conflicting information. These growing pains aren’t just frustrating—they directly impact your bottom line and ability to scale.
Navigating the complexities of financial management can be overwhelming for family offices without the right systems in place. From consolidating data across entities to ensuring accurate and real-time reporting, the demands can often feel unmanageable. With Sage Intacct, family offices gain a powerful platform designed to address these challenges head-on. This ultimate guide explains how Sage Intacct delivers enhanced financial transparency, simplified multi-entity consolidation, and improved reporting capabilities.
Effectively transitioning a business to the next generation of owners through a business succession plan that incorporates estate tax planning will result in the most value being retained by the owners and their families. Whether the business is entirely family owned or has unrelated owners, each scenario comes with its own complications but with considerable overlap in planning opportunities.
How far can artificial intelligence (AI) go in the financial reporting ecosystem? Is the vision of an interconnected ecosystem, with value-added and predictive insights, a near reality or still a far-off aspiration? The research conducted among 1800 financial reporting executives across major economies around the world shines a new light on those questions—and finds that we are standing on the cusp of genuine financial reporting revolution: moving from the ‘digital age’ to the ‘AI age’ in which nothing will ever be quite the same again.
Many affluent families assume their financial affairs and financial reporting are straightforward, yet they often involve complexities like multiple trusts and private equity investments. This can lead to frustration over the lack of comprehensive financial insights. While bookkeeping tracks financial inputs, it doesn’t provide strategic insights that true accounting offers.
The IRS has released the 2025 cost-of-living adjustments for pension and 401(k) plan limitations. The indexed amounts for 2022 to 2025, and other commonly used limits are listed in this summary.
When considering the various aspects of managing family wealth from a tax perspective, it’s useful to have a list of “tax Do’s and Don’t’s” on hand to help ensure that no tax planning opportunities nor implications are missed. In this summary of tax items that are commonly overlooked or misunderstood, it can serve as your checklist and a good starting place for deeper conversations with your tax advisors.