Many business owners are unaware of the opportunities they have in creating wealth through their business. Many owners put too much wealth in their business, where it can be tied up or hard to get out. It also prevents them from accumulating outside retirement funds.
There are several ways to create wealth through your business on a tax-efficient basis which many owners are not aware of.
I would like to share with you the six mistakes that prevent owners from creating more wealth by utilizing the business cash flow.
- NOT IMPLEMENTING A CEEP: (Corporate Executive Equity Plan) for themselves. This is one of the most tax effective methods of creating personal wealth using corporate cash flow. The cost of providing this wealth creating account costs the owner about 30% of the tax cost. Example: if the company bonused $20,000 to the owner for a personal retirement plan, the tax cost would be $6,000 each year. However, under a CEEP arrangement, the cost would only be a $60 the first year, and about $1,200 the 20th year. This is one of the most misunderstood concepts in executive compensation by attorneys, insurance professionals and CPA’S. Consequently, it might be considered under used. However, the executive compensation specialist understands how the plans work and how it can be of great value for the business owner in shifting income from the company to the personal side of the owner.
- NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SECTION 412(e)(1): which allows the owner to make a substantial number of tax-deductible contributions into a retirement plan skewed towards the higher paid owner. Example, the owner aged 50 can deposit up to $213,905 fully tax-deductible. Great for good cash flow companies.
- NOT USING THE “SAFE HARBOR RETIREMENT PLAN”: where a substantial amount of the tax-deductible contributions can be allocated to the higher paid participants. Also, included in this arrangement is the “Cash Balance Plan”. These plans create greater tax-deductions for higher paid employees.
- NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A RESTRICTED BENEFIT PLANS (RBP): which is a discriminatory and tax-deductible plan. It can be used to provide valuable benefits to retain key people. The business owner keeps the forfeitures if the employee leaves before vested. This can lock your key group to your company.
- NOT CREATING A DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN: This is a flexible, separate, and discretionary retirement benefit that can also become a mechanism for funding the sale of your business in the future and create retirement income. The pot is sweetened when you add a DBO (Death Benefit Only) to the planning.
- NOT CREATING AND NOT FUNDING YOUR BUY AND SELL AGREEMENTS: A disability, long term illness, or death may occur long before the owner planned to exit their business, creating a path to financial disaster not only for the owner, but their family, partners, and employees. This is one of the most egregious mistakes I see business owners make. Many times, it goes unnoticed by the advisors. This is one of the reasons why I am an advocate of check-off lists, “fire drills”, and annual reviews.[i]
Simply Put! By Utilizing These Common Benefits, Owners Can Maximize Their Fullest Potential Business Value!
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- 2 proven strategies to increase cash flow and reduce expenses if you really want to sleep at night!
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- “Your Business DNA” Understanding this key allows you to double your savings and retirement investing without making a single dollar more in income or investing in more capital equipment and labor.
- 5 value drivers to prepare your business for a sale, even 20 years in advance!
- How a simple inexpensive benefit plan can keep your key people!
- How creating a Deferred Compensation plan can help finance the future sale of your business.
- How having a benefit plan for you in the future can lower your cost to sell your business?
- Misleading and incorrect “old wives’ tales” about creating wealth in your business.
- Tax saving strategies that 9 out of 10 business owners don’t use and end up paying more taxes
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[i] Paul Hood: “Buy and Sell Agreements- the last will and testament for business owners”. Paul discusses his check off list, and his “fire drill”. I am an advocate for these systems to make sure the buy and sell agreement is a perfect of a fit to the entity and owners as possible.
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