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Income Tax Year End Moves for 2024 & 2025 filing

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Presented by Andy Whitman, PhD, Licensed Attorney, Tax Preparer & Volunteer Financial Planner at Prepare + Prosper.

Choose the moves that are right for you. Everyone's tax situation is different, consult with a tax professional to come up with a financial plan well before year end.

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Life & Estate Plans: Life, Incapacity, and Gifting

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Estate Planning Attorney Matt Guttman discusses trusts and other estate planning issues.

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Financial Life in Retirement

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Topics relevant to managing investments in retirement.  By David Foster, CFP©, CRPC©, CRPS©

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Medicare Advantage (MA) and Traditional Medicare (TM): Issues & Choices

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We will continue to discuss the pros and cons of Medicare Advantage.  You will also hear about notable non-health plan and non-broker resources.

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When will the Medicare advantage bubble burst? Part 2

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This session will continue the discussion begun in the May 8, 2023 session.  See that article for details.

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UMRA Events

Commercializing UMN Research & Inventions- Yields Excellent, Lasting Returns

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UMN Technology Commercialization facilitates the transfer of UMN innovation beyond the research lab by helping our diverse researchers in development of new products and services that benefit the public good, foster economic growth, and generate revenue to support the University's mission.

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Commercializing UMN Research & Invention

Tax update 2023 and 2024

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Topics include tax changes; tax reducing moves required now and tax management in 2024.

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Estate Planning

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Overview of all your important financial decisions from taxes to trusts and health care directives.

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Long Term Care Insurance class

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Funding Long Term Nursing care as an ongoing issue. There are a number of factors that will determine if LTC insurance is right for you – your age, health, retirement goals, income and assets.

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Long Term Care stats

Tax efficient distributions to family and charities

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This presentation was recorded at Carlson School. Topics included IRS compliant ways to make qualified charitable distributions (QCD) from your IRA or rollover IRA; funding gifts to Minors and other gifts; plus more.

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Tax efficient distributions to family and charities

When Will the Medicare Advantage Bubble Burst?

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Recording spreads awareness to rein in the Medicare Advantage (MA) privatized system, and protect traditional Medicare funding.

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Tax Update: Elections, Forgiveness, & Taxes, Oh My!

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Todd J. Koch, CPA, MBT, CFP /JAK Partner, has again invited UMRA members to attend the year-end tax planning presentation for JAK clients.

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Estate Planning

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Matt Guttman will give a webinar on Estate planning.

A review of past webinars is good preparation for the fall 2022 programs.  Review 2021 estate planning webinar.

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Tax Efficient Distributions to Family and Charities

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Todd J. Koch, CPA, MBT, CFP /JAK Partner, has again invited UMRA members to attend the year-end tax planning presentation for JAK clients.

You may review the fall 2021 presentation recording and slides
Please start at 00:01:51 due to technical issues.

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Year End Tax Planning

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Todd Koch, CPA, MBT, CFP, will review MN and Federal tax code changes, IRA and retirement account distribution strategies, and other important tax questions.

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