Taxes & Trusts
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Asset Care Insures a Buy-Sell
The June Coffee Break focuses on businesses and premium deductions that are available when funding an Asset Care policy. To learn more about this opportunity, check out our June broadcast of Coffee Break by following this link or clicking on the Coffee Break image to the right. And, last week’s Fridays with Fisher, I shared a… Continue reading
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Section 162 Executive Bonus
In our June edition of Coffee Break, we shared some tax opportunities that businesses have when funding Asset Care. Simply, the premiums for the long term care portion of the policy can be deducted. With this in mind, I want to remind you of a strategy that we have discussed before – the Section 162… Continue reading
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A Gift for You
This week’s episode of LTC Coffee Break shared an idea of generational gifting and funding an Asset Care policy. Michael shares an example and some insight around the strategy which he and an advisor recently employed. You should check it out. Get a new idea Tuesday when Michael Florio and I drop a new episode… Continue reading
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Maturing Annuity Opportunity
There are trillions of dollars of non-qualified deferred annuities on the books. With an aging population of annuity holders, the opportunity exists for you to provide a solution to those who are facing the prospect of a maturing annuity contract. At OneAmerica, we have a solution called Legacy Care. Legacy Care is a single premium… Continue reading
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Funding Source – Qualified Money
If you were able to catch the most recent release of our full LTC Coffee Break earlier this week, you will recall that Michael and I discuss using qualified money to fund Asset Care. If you missed it, you can go to the LTC Coffee Break website at LTCcoffeebreak.com or just CLICK HERE to begin… Continue reading
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Asset Care & Executive Bonus
A Controlled Executive Bonus Plan — also known as a Restrictive Bonus or Section 162 plan — is an agreement that typically allows employers to use tax deductible money as a “bonus” to fund a life insurance policy for high-value employees. With Asset-Care, that policy also includes benefits for qualifying long-term care (LTC). This agreement… Continue reading
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IRS LTC Numbers for 2020
Every year around this time, we start sharing numbers for the following year’s planning. Here are the inflation adjusted LTC numbers for 2020 that you might find useful. With the Asset Care product line identifying Acceleration of benefit (AOB) and Continuation of Benefit (COB) charges, the LTC premium associated with the policy is identifiable. The… Continue reading
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A Little Pool Anyone?
Here we go again – the discussion of addressing the extended healthcare (aka long term care) funding issue. For many, self-funding ends up being the answer. By default or by decision, people elect to bear the full burden of the cost associated with an extended healthcare event and not elect an insurance-based solution. So, here… Continue reading
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Qualified Money for LTC
Earlier this week, an advisor (we will call him Andy) called me with an interesting question. It went something like this: “I have a client – a single man who is in his early 60s and is unmarried whose parents both recently died after spending a ton of their money on assisted living and nursing… Continue reading
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Q&A – Qualified Money Funding – 457
Question: Can a 457 plan be used in conjunction with Asset Care funding with qualified money? Answer: There are two types of 457 arrangements. One is a governmental 457(b) which can be rolled over to an IRA. So, we would suggest that the governmental 457(b) be rolled over to an IRA, or merely take the distributions… Continue reading
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Gifting LTC
So, you want some ideas – here is one that I think is pretty cool – using a gifting strategy to purchase LTC protection. When your client’s have their LTC funding plan in place, they may wish to help others. Anyone can make a gift into a Care Solutions product. One idea is to gift… Continue reading
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Q&A -Need Tax Info
Question: All of this stuff that you mentioned in the last article has got me wondering if you have resources available that can help answer design strategies and/or tax questions. What do you have? Answer: Depending upon the nature of your question, we have many resources for you. Here is a list of some. Asset-based LTC… Continue reading
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