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Natasha D. McFarland
Natasha focuses her practice on sophisticated estate planning delivered in a straight-forward manner that clients can understand. She advises high net worth individuals and their families on a wide range of matters, including wealth preservation through trust, gift and estate tax planning, generation-skipping transfer tax issues, charitable giving, and related compliance.
Prior to joining Birchstone Moore, Natasha spent over five years in professional tax services at EY, advising family enterprises, private business owners, and corporate executives on income, estate and gift tax strategies. Her experience also includes compliance and reporting for charitable giving and private foundations. Natasha’s compliance background allows her to view her clients’ estate plans holistically from the outset of the planning process, knowing how those plans will ultimately be received by taxing authorities.
Natasha consistently strives to give clients peace of mind throughout the estate planning process.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
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Tax Manager, EY, LLP
EDUCATION
- LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 2016
- Certificate in Estate Planning
- J.D., Howard University School of Law, 2015
- B.S., North Carolina A&T State University, 2008
- Fellow, Real Property, Trusts & Estates Section of the American Bar Association
- Former Chair, Estate Planning Committee of the D.C. Bar Association Taxation Section (2023-2024; Vice Chair from 2022-2023)
- Member, Washington DC Estate Planning Council
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“The Voldemort of Transfer Taxes: Paying the GST Tax and Planning for GST Non-Exempt Trusts”, Virtual 2024 Fall Tax Meeting, Taxation Section of the American Bar Association, September 24, 2024
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“The Voldemort of Transfer Taxes: What to Do When GST Tax is Due and Other Tales from the Dark Side”, DC Bar Estate Planning Tax Series, June 15, 2023
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“What’s the State of Your Estate?”, at the Howard University School of Law, April 1, 2023
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“Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way”, at the Howard University School of Law, March 2022
