Posts by Rick Durfee
Sustainable Distributions
Sustainable Distributions: How to Make Wealth Last and Grow The United Nations has promulgated 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Broadly speaking, these inter-related goals address global issues such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. This is a model for other human endeavors including trusts or charitable organizations intended to last a long…
Read MoreDeferred Sales Trust
A Deferred Sales Trust is a device to defer the taxable gain on the sale of appreciated real property or the like. Typically, when appreciated property is sold, the gain is taxable. The tax on this gain can generally be deferred or spread out with a sale on installment note. Such tax deferral is not…
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We have provided an on-line resource to help our clients and friends prepare for contingencies while we all “shelter in place” during an emergency such as the current corona virus / COVID-19 lock down. Any medical or financial crisis will be much worse if there are also legal complications. To be prepared during during the…
Read MoreTHE LIFE INSURANCE LLC: A POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO THE BUY-SELL TAX BASIS CONUNDRUM
Life Insurance LLC A “Life Insurance LLC” can creatively address the problems business owners face when developing a buy-sell agreement. Buy-Sell Agreements have several hurdles: Death benefits funded with corporate owned life insurance may lead to unintended and unwelcome income tax consequences. Businesses with more than two owners in a cross purchase agreement tend to…
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