SDTC Planning Strategies

The SDTC Founders and its employees have advised more than 20% of the Forbes 400. In working with these families as well as with other wealthy families and their advisors around the country, SDTC has seen many creative and cutting-edge planning strategies. SDTC would be happy to discuss these strategies with you to see if they might be appropriate. Many of these strategies involve the following:

· Minimizing taxes on the sale of highly appreciated assets (i.e. publicly traded stock, closely-held stock, art, partnerships, LLC's, etc..);
· Cutting-edge strategies for shifting growth from one's estate;
· Minimizing taxes with non-qualified stock options;
· Planning for foreign citizens with US citizen/greencard children and/or grandchildren ;
· Unique business succession and closely-held business planning ;
· Establishing a Family Bank/Dynasty Trust: Why? How? When? Where?;
· Creative charitable giving strategies;
· Movement of an existing trust to South Dakota to save state income taxes;
· Advanced and flexible planning for minimizing estate and generation skipping taxes;
· Modern asset protection planning (on-shore);
· The latest education planning strategies for children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren;
· Important non-tax issues and strategies for passing family wealth intergenerationally;
· "Value and incentive oriented" estate planning for families;
· The latest strategies for planning with residences and vacation homes;
· The latest advanced and creative estate planning strategies for corporate executives and doctors;
· Estate planning for international families;
· Domestic asset protection planning.

These strategies as well as other strategies frequently utilized by SDTC involve one or more of the following trusts:

· South Dakota NIMCRUT · Pour Over South Dakota Revocable Living Trust
· "Defective" South Dakota Dynasty Trust (Grantor and Beneficiary) · "Directed" South Dakota Trust
· South Dakota 2503(c) Trust · Supercharged Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
· South Dakota 2642(c) Trust · Self-Settled Trust
· South Dakota Private Foundation · South Dakota Foreign Trust
· South Dakota Home Security Trust · South Dakota NRA Dynasty Trust
· "Walton" Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) ·South Dakota Irrevocable Life Insurance Dynasty Trust
· Charitable Lead Trust (Kennedy Trust) ·Change of Situs Trust
· Incentive Trust ·South Dakota "Delegated" Trust
· South Dakota HEET Trust · South Dakota Private Placement Life Insurance Trust

In addition to the trusts listed above as well as other trusts not mentioned above, many of these strategies also involve family limited partnerships and LLCs. The funding vehicles are typically financial assets, non-financial assets, and/or insurance. In addition, to the trust listed above, SDTC also administers most of the standard trusts utilized in estate planning. These are listed under Trust Services on this website.

If you have any questions or would like any additional information regarding SDTC's Planning Strategies, please contact us
or visit out our South Dakota Planning Company, LLC Website.

 

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