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Man i wish you guys lived in my country so these things applied to me. Then again, we don’t have any capital gains taxes here (for now) so things are good.

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What’s your opinion on infinite banking (using whole life insurance and irrevocable trusts) as a generational tool?

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Aug 30·edited Aug 30Author

This is for much higher wealth amounts, outside of CT where everyone is a billionaire usually doesn't apply.

Irrevocable comes into play as you enter 8-figures

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founding

Thanks Bull for this; would be interested to see similar views for other countries (Canada, Europe, etc)

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Is it better for a property mortgage to be under a corporation’s name, and if so, can it still be under your personal trust?

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Typically if you're going to start setting up separate companies for a large real estate holding it would go into a company and then irrevocable trust.

This is because that situation is usually when your net worth has exploded and is well past $10M

Below $10M you're better off doing all the weird stuff here, gifting to family, basic living trust etc.

For exmaple if you ahve $5M liquid do you really need the next $1M? You know you will never touch it so better to put that under family member name, let it grow, inherit tax free 20 years later

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Can we have a post on ETH and BTC and where we’re going in this cycle please?

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Q&A is Sunday, should be pretty easy to explain.

As usual don't blindly copy us since wealth and finance is personal.

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Just watched a 0.1% family go through this. Widow is buying a home in Vail after 30 years of board grants just stepped up in basis. It will be her fourth property (that I know of). If they’re playing this game you should be too at the level you can!

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Ha! Not surprising.

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When does it make sense to get an irrevocable trust?

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Aug 30·edited Aug 30Author

There is no estate tax benefit to living trusts. If you are in the 8-figure club you need to start thinking about this. The downside is they can never be changed.

If you have a family of normal size, say 4 people, and everyone trusts one another it's honestly unlikely you need irrevokable trusts unless the wealth is well into 8 figures. It's acutally better you don't own a chunk of assets under your name since that's even safer for legal reasons

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