Income Strategy

Business Owner Retirement - Tax-Free Strategies Beyond Your Business Value

Tax-free retirement strategies tailored for Business Owners (Any Size). Income range: $100,000 - $5,000,000+.

Business Owner Retirement - Tax-Free Strategies Beyond Your Business Value

Retirement Landscape for Business Owners (Any Size)

Business value concentration creates single-asset risk. Exit timing dependent on market and buyer availability. Business sale proceeds fully taxable. Employment taxes on owner salary. C-corp creates double taxation issues. No guarantee business will sell at expected price.

Common Retirement Challenges

Challenges that Business Owners (Any Size) typically face

How IUL Solves These Problems

IUL serves multiple business planning purposes simultaneously: retirement accumulation outside the business, key-person insurance coverage, executive bonus plan funding, and buy-sell agreement funding. For business owners, building retirement assets outside the business reduces concentration risk and creates income independent of a successful business sale.

The Key Advantage: IUL policy loans are not considered taxable income at the state or federal level. This means no IRMAA triggers, no Social Security taxation thresholds crossed, and no impact on means-tested benefits.

Key Strategies for Business Owners (Any Size)

IUL for key-person coverage and retirement accumulation
1 Defined benefit / cash balance plan for large pre-tax deductions
2 Executive bonus (Section 162) plan funded with IUL
3 ESOP for business succession with tax advantages
4 Installment sale or earnout to spread taxable gain on business sale
5 Qualified Opportunity Zone investment for capital gains deferral

Get a Retirement Plan Designed for Business Owners (Any Size)

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