June and John were a gregarious couple who owned and operated a successful upscale restaurant in San Francisco. They not only owned the restaurant, but also the building in which it was located. While they loved their business, they were now in their late 50s and looking forward to retirement. As often happens, however, none of their three grown children had any interest in taking over the business.
Capital Gains Taxes
Webinar Replay: Capital Gains Worries? Learn How to Create an Exit Strategy and Wealth Plan with Two Deferred Sales Trust™ Solutions
One of the most intriguing features of the Deferred Sales Trust is the ability to combine both of our two main structures to both defer the capital gains taxes, and to position assets that generate a lifetime income for you and then pass your growing underlying principal to your designated heirs OUTSIDE of your taxable estate (e.g. Not subject to the 40% + estate tax). This combination is what we refer to as the DST Plus.
Lawmakers Could Convert Stocks, Avoiding Capital Gains
Under a bipartisan bill sponsored by Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Steve Daines (R-MT), congressional members and their spouses would not only be banned from trading stocks, but also be required sell their individual stock holdings and put their other assets in blind trusts.
Josh Curtis, CEO of EQB Interviews Greg Reese on the Deferred Sales Trust.
Josh Curtis, CEO of EQB speaks with Greg Reese, CEO of Reef Point and DST Trustee on the Deferred Sales Trust. A lesser known but powerful modern strategy for deferring capital gains taxes, the Deferred Sales Trust (DST), employs an innovative tax strategy to defer capital gains tax and preserve wealth.
Webinar Replay: How to Defer Capital Gains on Cryptocurrency and other Digital Assets
If you’re invested in cryptocurrency, you know that you can make huge profits on these types of non fungible tokens (NFTs). A DST can assist with deferring capital gains by transferring them into a DST instead of directly selling them to or exchanging them with your intended recipient.