Planned Giving
Welcome to Palmer College planned givingThank you for your interest in planned giving for Palmer College of Chiropractic. Our goal is to provide a service for you and your family which includes useful information on estate planning. We have an increasing number of Palmer alumni and friends who now are benefiting from life income gifts, gift annuities and other planned gifts. Please take some time to peruse our website and explore the many different tools for and benefits of gift planning.
Trusts for Creative Spenders
Trusts can be quite useful for protecting children. However, for some children, the trust serves an additional function: It protects the principal from being rapidly spent by a child. These trusts...MORE
Sen. Reid Supports Tax Extenders
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is negotiating with other Washington leaders to extend the payroll tax cut. Under the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 (H.R. 3765), the employee contribution for January and February of 2012 was reduced 2% from 6.2% to 4.2%. The White House, Reid and other leaders are proposing to extend this tax reduction for all of 2012.
This week in Washington, an aide to Sen. Reid indicated that he favors including the tax extenders in the payroll tax cut bill. The tax extenders are 40 provisions have been passed each year for the past two decades. A provision of particular importance to philanthropy is the tax extender that permits qualified gifts from an IRA directly to a charity. These gifts are permitted for IRA owners over age 70½ and have a limit of...MORE