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The Fundamentals of Effective Wealth Transfer
The Fundamentals of Effective Wealth Transfer
Transferring wealth isn’t just about who gets what—it’s about when, how, and under what conditions. At SSG Companies, we guide high-net-worth families through the complexities of estate planning with a clear focus on control, tax efficiency, and long-term impact. These fundamentals reflect the core principles behind our planning philosophy.
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The Fundamentals of Wealth Transfer
1. Maintain Control During Your Lifetime
Keep decision-making power over your assets while you’re alive. Our strategies allow you to prepare for future transitions without giving up access or authority prematurely.
3. Transfer Assets During Life, Not Just at Death
Making lifetime transfers allows you to preserve valuation discounts and shift appreciating assets out of your estate before their value grows—protecting more of your wealth from estate taxes.
5. Use Income Taxes Strategically
Some trusts and structures let you pay income tax on assets held outside your estate—effectively reducing your taxable estate while making tax-free gifts to your beneficiaries.
7. Direct More Wealth to Heirs and Charities—Less to the IRS
By using tools like discounted gifting, trust structures, and charitable strategies, we help you increase the benefit of your wealth to others while reducing the share owed in taxes.
2. Use Valuation Discounts to Lower Taxable Value
Through the use of structured entities and discounting methods, we reduce the appraised value of gifted assets—minimizing the taxable portion without changing their real economic value.
4. Freeze Asset Values While Shifting Growth Outside the Estate
Certain structures allow you to “freeze” the taxable value of an asset while any future appreciation occurs outside your estate—maximizing what goes to your heirs and minimizing what’s exposed to the IRS.
6. Protect Your Wealth From Creditors and Lawsuits
We incorporate asset protection strategies that shield wealth from future liability—so your legacy remains secure for your heirs or charitable goals.
8. Eliminate or Greatly Reduce Estate Taxes With Life Insurance
Life insurance can be designed as a highly tax-efficient funding source for estate liquidity, allowing you to pay taxes on your terms—or eliminate them altogether.
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