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IRA "Rollover" Keeps on Rolling
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 has been extended until the end of 2009. If you are 70½ or older, you can use your IRA funds to make charitable gifts without it counting as a tax distribution.
Life Insurance
An important but frequently overlooked role of life insurance is the one it can play in charitable gift planning. Life insurance itself can be the direct funding medium for a gift, permitting the donor to make a substantial gift (face value of policy) for a relatively modest annual outlay (i.e., the premium payment).
Life insurance can also be used to replace an asset that has been given to IU. How it works: After a donor makes a gift to IU, the tax savings produced by the charitable deduction are used by his or her children or an irrevocable trust to purchase and pay the premiums on a life insurance policy on the donor's life. Such an arrangement can ensure that the interests of family beneficiaries will not be adversely affected.
