Clifford Scott Meyer's diverse practice includes financial and tax Monte Carlo modeling of sophisticated transactions, domestic asset protection, tax reformation of instruments and transactions, closely held business succession planning, technical support for planned giving departments of major institutions and individual tax planning.
Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken, Scott was a partner with the now dissolved law firm of Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen.
Scott earned an LL.M. in Taxation from Villanova University in 1985. He received a J.D., cum laude, from University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and graduated, magna cum laude, from Bucknell University in 1976.
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Rauenhorst, Ferguson, and Assignment of Income to Charity
I. Introduction Under the venerable doctrine of Lucas v. Earl, a taxpayer who completes a gift of appreciated property after a tax realization event, such as an agreement to sell […]
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Bequeathing IRAs: The Case for Charitable Remainder Unitrusts
I. A Bold Claim For most healthy adult children of upper-middle-income families, the after-tax amounts to be received over a lifetime from an inherited IRA will be equivalent to the […]
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Vetting Charitable Gifts of Business Interests
A significant transition in a closely held business, such as a sale or going public, often causes the owners to consider making a charitable gift. Such gifts are usually substantial, […]
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ABLE Act Benefiting Disabled Americans Passed by Congress
In its first major piece of legislation benefitting disabled individuals since the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, on December 16, 2014 Congress passed the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act […]
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