Should You Utilize a Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT) Before the End of 2021?

A major shift during the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts was a creation of the doubling of the federal estate tax exemption to $11.7 million (as of 2021). However, contained within the Trump Tax Cuts was a sunset provision. The estate tax exemption would be reduced in 2025 to pre-2017 levels, i.e., $5 million per person. […]