Posts by David Repp

David practices primarily in the area of taxation. He provides a broad range of tax counsel to small businesses on topics including federal and state income tax planning, taxation of employee benefits, equity structure and mergers, and succession planning. He also counsels and advises clients with respect to the management of their wealth to minimize estate and inheritance taxes through the use of asset protection trusts, grantor trusts, powers of appointment, lifetime gifts, QTIP trusts and generation skipping trusts. As part owner of a family farm operation, David provides income tax, FICA tax and succession planning counsel to many farm clients.

Posted on 03/06/2017 at 11:41 AM by David Repp

I give all my assets to my children, per stirpes -- What?

Sometimes, when the business of law is slow, attorneys will spar with each other on social media. This happened this mor...

Posted on 02/16/2017 at 08:33 AM by David Repp

Estate tax repeal bill introduced by the Senate

Twenty-eight Republican Senators, including senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, introduced a bill to terminate the F...

Posted on 08/25/2016 at 10:11 AM by David Repp

The IRS never liked those valuation discounts

Everyone who has ever inherited shares of stock in a family corporation knows that they will be in it for the long run u...

Posted on 04/28/2016 at 10:26 AM by David Repp

No will for Prince means big money for siblings

The latest news out of Minnesota indicates Prince died without leaving a will. In Minnesota, Prince’s sibling...

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:24 AM by David Repp

Special report on estate planning for farmers: Part 5 of 7

In a special report prepared in conjunction with a presentation at the University of Iowa College of Law's 2011 Spri...