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Corporate Strategies

Corporate Estate Preservation

A corporate estate preservation strategy provides business owners with a cost-effective way of preserving capital and enhancing the value of their estates. By using some or all of your business' existing passive corporate assets to fund a life insurance policy, you can take advantage of the tax-advantaged growth within an exempt life insurance policy to minimize annual taxes.

 

How Does It Work?

The corporation purchases an exempt life insurance policy. You are listed as the life insured and the corporation is named as the beneficiary. Cash value is created as the corporation deposits amounts into the policy in excess of what is required from the policy charges. Cash value accumulates on a tax-deferred basis that may increase the death benefit payable under the insurance policy. At death, the corporation receives the life insurance proceeds tax free, as well as credit to its capital dividend account for the amount of the life insurance proceeds less the insurance policy's adjusted cost basis. Capital dividends may then be paid tax free to your estate. (so long as there is no other negative balance in the capital dividend account).

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Key Person Insurance

Businesses can often be at risk of being dependent on the expertise of just a few key employees, such as a manager, a leading contributor to the sales force or one who maintains crucial customer relationships. Without the implementation of a sound business plan, the death or disability of a key person could significantly impair the growth or stability of a business. Key person insurance is an important component of any financial plan and may reduce the impact of the loss of a key employee on a business. If a key employee dies or is unable to work at any time before retirement because of a disability, a key person insurance policy could provide the business with some financial means to manage the loss of the employee and preserve the value of the business.

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Corporate Owned Insurance

There are many reasons why insurance should be purchased on the life of the shareholder of a private corporation. Once the decision is made to acquire life insurance, the question of whether it is better for insurance to be held personally or within the corporation can arise. This article outlines some of the reasons why business owners buy life insurance, the potential tax benefits to owning the insurance within a corporation, and issues that may arise as consequence of doing so.

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