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Charitable Gift Annuities – Creative Solutions for Different Donor Needs

NAIFA Advisor Today

Increasingly, nonprofits, donors, and financial professionals are leveraging CGAs to meet a variety of financial and charitable objectives with a single gift. Simple to establish and available in multiple formats, CGAs can even be funded through a qualified charitable distribution (QCD), making them a versatile tool for charitable planning.

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Win-Win Charitable Giving

MainStreet Financial Planning

Having a simple plan and willingness to use alternatives to cash donations can help you lower your tax liability. Check out these charitable giving tax strategies to create your win-win charitable plan that you can implement throughout the year! Bunch donations. Donate directly from your IRA. Open a donor-advised fund.

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DAF Before QCD? A Charitable Giving Strategies Q&A with Dr. James

eMoney Advisor

If you have a client who’s making cash donations, and they’re age 70 1/2, it’s smarter to make those gifts directly out of the IRA in what’s called a qualified charitable distribution (QCD). That means QCDs can be used in charitable giving strategies before RMDs begin. More on that below.

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Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets

Brown Advisory

These strategies may include the conversion of an IRA or qualified retirement plan to a Roth IRA , because the tax consequences of such a conversion are based on asset values at the time of conversion, and any future growth in value will avoid income taxation, both within the plan and at the time of distribution to the plan beneficiary.

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Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets

Brown Advisory

These strategies may include the conversion of an IRA or qualified retirement plan to a Roth IRA , because the tax consequences of such a conversion are based on asset values at the time of conversion, and any future growth in value will avoid income taxation, both within the plan and at the time of distribution to the plan beneficiary.