Estate Planning for Small Business Owners


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Unless a small business owner has a solid financial plan for transferring ownership of the business, the IRS can claim anywhere from 37% to 55% of it in taxes--and that doesn't include the state tax bite! Prepared especially for small businesses by an expert on tax and succession planning, this invaluable guide comes to grips with all the critical issues and problems an owner may face.










Business Succession Planning and Beyond


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This guide will assert the estate planner to work with business owners or other family members as they plan for succession.







Tax and Financial Planning for the Closely Held Family Business


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Tax and Financial Planning for the Closely Held Family Business serves as a manual to help business advisers devise strategies for clients dealing with family issues. Guiding family businesses through the complex maze of organizational, tax, financial, governance, estate planning, and personal family issues is a complex, time-consuming, difficult, and sometimes emotional process. This book focuses not only on identifying the problems family businesses face, but on devising solutions and planning opportunities for both family businesses and their owners. Each chapter of this book contains creative planning opportunities that advisers can suggest and help implement in order to solve real problems in the family business.




Strictly Business


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Strictly Business is the first book in 2002 to discuss the impact of recent tax law changes on businesses and business owners. Looking beyond the phantom tax "rebates" and estate tax "repeal," it clearly explains the challenges and opportunities the new act creates for business owners-and why reducing taxes may not be their chief planning concern. Strictly Business is written in a hard-hitting, question-and-answer format to clearly and simply explain complex concepts and strategies relating to starting and operating a business, choosing a business structure, expanding a business, and developing fringe benefits, retirement funds, and a succession strategy. By drawing on several disciplines and the expertise of more than 90 of America's leading planning professionals, Strictly Business offers the most comprehensive and relevant planning ideas on issues important to business owners. For many of us, just knowing the questions to ask our advisors will greatly help us to become involved in the planning process. Whether you are a would-be-entrepreneur or a veteran business owner, armed with the insights and information in Strictly Business, you will be able to enter into the planning process with your advisors with more confidence to ensure that your business and your legacy thrive and remain strong, now and into the future.




Succession Planning for the Family Owned Business


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Succession Planning for the Family Owned Business represents a comprehensive strategy for ensuring that your family business is passed successfully to the next generation. Within these pages, you will find everything you need to plan for the future of your small business as well as your family.




Estate Planning with Life Insurance


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Estate Planning for Owners of Closely Held Business Interests


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... is designed as a guide to the lifetime and post-mortem estate planning techniques primarily applicable to the owners of interests in closely held businesses.