Your Estate Freeze Tells You the Tax Bill. Who's Paying It?
An estate freeze fixes the tax bill at death. Part 2 of the wealth side shows business owners how to design insurance around the structure that creates it.

An estate freeze fixes the tax bill at death. Part 2 of the wealth side shows business owners how to design insurance around the structure that creates it.

Succession starts with control. Part 1 of the wealth side shows business owners how disability, critical illness and key person coverage protect the plan.

A Holdco and Family Trust protect capital. They do not produce cash on demand. Here is how corporate-owned life insurance, the CDA, and a funded buy-sell agreement are the piece that actually pays out when death tests the structure.

A business owner had $500K in corporate cash and two advisors telling him what to do with it. Neither asked what it was for. Here's what coordinated planning actually looks like.

OAS clawback is not just a tax problem, it is a sequencing problem.

Most business owners have an accountant, an advisor, and insurance in place. But when you ask what the plan actually looks like — things get quiet. Here's why coordination beats advice every time.