Andrew Katzenstein

Oct 24, 2024 | lexology.com | Albert W Gortz |David Pratt |Mitchell M Gaswirth |Andrew Katzenstein |Nathaniel Birdsall |Stephanie Heilborn | +6 more

Estate, Gift and GST Tax UpdateWhat This Means for Your Current Will, Revocable Trust and Estate PlanThe estate and gift tax regimes have been permanent and unified since the passage of The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "2012 Act"). In 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "2017 Act") significantly increased the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer ("GST") tax exemptions, which is scheduled to continue to be increased for inflation through December 31, 2025 as set forth below.

Sep 7, 2024 | nybooks.com | Daniel Drake |Andrew Katzenstein

In our September 19 issue, Andrew Katzenstein writes about one of Hollywood’s most distinctive contributions to the world: “The hope is that in figuring out what we mean by ‘screwball comedy,’ we might be better able to understand just what it is about these films that transports us.” Surveying dozens of movies from the 1930s and 1940s—about quick-witted, love-smitten archaeologists, professors, reporters, heirs, heiresses, cardsharps, and gentlemen crooks—he tries to identify how the prewar...

Apr 12, 2024 | nybooks.com | Lucy Jakub |Daniel Drake |Willa Glickman |Andrew Katzenstein

Dispatches from the 2024 solar eclipse April 12, 2024 I. Andrew Katzenstein in Mason, Texas II. Willa Glickman in Rochester, New York III. Daniel Drake in Warren, Vermont IV. Lucy Jakub in the Rangeley Lakes, Maine 🌘 🌗 🌓 🌒 I learned about this year’s eclipse in late 2016, when I read an article in The New York Review by James Gleick, who mentioned it in a discussion of scientific determinism: There is a strain of physicist that likes to think of the world as settled, inevitable, its path...

Jun 4, 2023 | mondaq.com | Andrew Katzenstein

May 1, 2023 | lexology.com | Andrew Katzenstein