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Continuing Education Credit — November 2018

As a subscriber to Financial-Planning.com, you can earn up to 12 hours of CE credit from the CFP Board and the Investments & Wealth Institute.

Please read the articles and answer the questions below. To find the related article, click on the hyperlinked title of the story – both online-only articles as well as stories published in the magazine.

You must answer 8 of the 10 questions correctly to qualify for CE credit.

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1.  Under the new tax law, the sale of a life insurance policy is considered a tax-free advance of the death benefit when the insured individual has a life expectancy less than this number of years. *This question is required.
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2. Clients who have sold a life insurance policy and paid taxes on the sale under the revenue ruling may be able to get a refund, retroactive to what year? *This question is required.
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3. If a client borrows money from their traditional IRA, how much time do they have to deposit the money back into the account before owing taxes, and also being hit by a penalty if they are under 59 1/2? *This question is required.
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4.  DAFs must pay out what minimum percentage of assets annually? *This question is required.
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5. As an advisor, how many years must have passed before you no longer have to report an agreement with creditors on question 14K of Form U4? *This question is required.
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6. Under the new tax law, clients who file individually may get a 20% deduction on REIT dividends as qualified income as long as they earn less than this amount
annually. *This question is required.
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7. Foreign investors are subject to what maximum percentage of withholding on their REIT distributions, per the new tax code? *This question is required.
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8. For income tax purposes, the money raised by an initial coin offering would generally be excluded from income, according to what section of the Internal Revenue Code? *This question is required.
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9. What is the qualified business income deduction allowed for a sole proprietorship, per the tax law? *This question is required.
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10. What is the dollar limitation for defined contribution plans stipulated by Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code? *This question is required.
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