A once little known federal immigration program that grants green cards to foreign nationals who invest at least $500,000 in the United States has evolved into a powerful tool for job creation and economic development. The EB-5, or Employment-Based Fifth Preference - investor visa program has become so popular that in 2015 for the first time it surpassed the Congressionally… Read Complete Article...

The era of tax-free rollovers from a donor’s IRA to qualified charities began with the Pension Protection Act of 2006. The ability to use this resource for charitable purposes, limited though it may be, may not seem all that significant, but remember that Americans have trillions in retirement assets. For better or worse, the IRA charitable rollover was enacted as… Read Complete Article...