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Irving Blackman

Irving Blackman

Irv Blackman, CPA and lawyer, is a retired founding partner of Blackman, Kallick, Bartelstein LLP and chairman emeritus of the New Century Bank (both in Chicago). Want to consult, need a second opinion? Call Blackman at (847) 674-5295. E-mail him at [email protected] or visit www.estatetaxsecrets.com.

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Life insurance
Tax & Succession

Focus on the Life Insurance

New tax vs. an age-old tax-advantaged life insurance victory.
January 4, 2018
Irving Blackman
Life insurance will help you and your family no matter what the final new law looks like. Here's why.
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taxes
Tax & Succession

How to Create Millions of Tax-Free Dollars

Ask your CPA the right questions and you could have a bigger bank account fast.
August 29, 2017
Irving Blackman
If you and your accountant are asking the right questions about your life insurance policies, then you can easily find benefits you may have otherwise missed.
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Create Tax-Free Wealth

Learn about a new and unique concept called the comprehensive tax plan, and beat up the IRS, legally. 
February 7, 2017
Irving Blackman
The comprehensive tax plan creates great tax results, while generating a huge amount of cash for your kids and grandchildren....
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Avoid the life insurance trap

There’s a right way and a wrong way to use life insurance to create wealth. Here’s the right way.
January 10, 2017
Irving Blackman
The easiest way for a successful business owner to create tax-free wealth is by the proper use of life insurance....
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Tax & Succession

The Secret to Keeping your Retirement Plan Dollars Away from the IRS

Any number of qualified plans can shelter income. But there are also ways to protect that income when it’s time to withdraw it.
December 6, 2016
Irving Blackman
For most Americans, retirement planning revolves around qualified plans (for example, IRA, 401(k), profit-sharing plan and the like). It’s a...
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Business Management

How to Kill the Estate Tax Monster...Legally

November 8, 2016
Irving Blackman
Readers of this column often call me to ask the following (or similar) two questions: “Irv, can you really beat...
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Tax & Succession

The Basics of Estate Planning

What’s the federal estate tax? How about the estate tax for your state? How can I give tax-free? Keep the following column handy for helpful answers to common starting points.
October 11, 2016
Irving Blackman
It happens about two times a week or at least than 100 times a year. A reader of this column...
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Tax & Succession

Enrich Your family, Not the IRS

Sometimes, strategies are secrets because few professionals know they exist.
September 7, 2016
Irving Blackman
Joe, a long-time reader of this column, and the owner of a family business (Success Co.) hired a new CPA...
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How to solve your family succession-planning problem

Succession planning does not have a one-size-fits-all solution. As a result, zero in on the facts described below that best fits your circumstances.
August 11, 2016
Irving Blackman
Do you own or run a family business? A business you want to continue after your leadership ends? Then this...
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Your estate plan should be a family matter

June 7, 2016
Irving Blackman
Do you have a family? A wife? Kids? Grandkids? Also, do you own all or part of a business? Then...
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