Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: Good morning and welcome to the start of the Park Bridge Wealth Management Spring Webinar Series. This program is entitled The Latest and Greatest and aggressive tax strategies. As always. My name is Jonathan Shankman. I'm the President, chief investment officer of Park Bridge wealth management. In that role I serve in a fiduciary capacity to help my clients achieve their financial objectives. The goal of my programs is to bring professionals together to help them better serve their clients.
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: This is done by educating attendees on the latest topics in wealth planning, and by encouraging collaboration between a client's attorney, Cpa. And financial advisor, where appropriate
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: my practice focused on working with high net, with families, businesses, and not for profits. I manage individual investment portfolios, trust accounts, corporate retirement plans and endowments that my clients achieve their financial goals. In addition to the 20 or so events I run every year.
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: I also do a fair amount of writing on the topics of investing the financial planning. You could read my work in a variety periodicals, including Barron's Cnbc. Forbes, Kiplinger, the Wall Street Journal, and Trust in Estates Magazine to name just a few. You could see all my work on my website at Park Bridge. wealth.com forward slash articles, or by following me on social media, Jonathan on money. Additionally, you can check out my weekly, podcast which is also called Jonathan on money, and you could listen to that. An apple spot
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: or wherever you get your podcast
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: today, we're privileged here from Matthew Rappaport, who's a vice managing partner, falcon, rapper, porter, Berkman, based in Long Island, New York. Matt shares his firm's private client groups. He concentrates his practice in taxation, as it relates to real estate, closely held businesses, private equity funds, family offices, and trusts and estates.
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: He advises clients regarding tax planning, structuring, and compliance for commercial, real estate projects, all stages of the business life, cycle, generational wealth, transfer, family business accession and executive compensation.
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: Matthew is known for his work on complex deals involving advanced tax considerations, such as Section 1031, exchanges a qualified opportunity Zone program, freeze partnerships, private equity mergers and acquisitions and qualified small business stock. On a personal note. Matt is one of the most frequent and popular speakers at my program, and is, it is a pleasure to collaborate with him. Given his deep knowledge and expertise
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: today, Matt will be speaking about the latest and greatest and aggressive tax strategies on that introduction. I'll now turn the program over to Matt.
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Matthew Rappaport: Popular
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Matthew Rappaport: Yoni popular. Are you sure about that? Listen, I'm not on video today, because I came back from Capitol Hill like midnight last night.
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Matthew Rappaport: Just like, not not video. Already today, like anybody wants to see my face, anyhow. So capital, it was interesting. I'm actually gonna throw some capital hill content into this program because some of what I heard
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Matthew Rappaport: was relevant to today.
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Matthew Rappaport: But
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Matthew Rappaport: I am happy to speak with all of you about.
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Matthew Rappaport: You know I wanted to do this topic because I feel like for those of you on the line who are tax advisors, wealth advisors, etc.
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Matthew Rappaport: You get the question all the time. Oh, hey! I have a windfall event, you know. I sold business. I sold the valuable collectible like I sold
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Matthew Rappaport: artwork, or I just made a lot of money this year, and what is available to me.
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Matthew Rappaport: and
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Matthew Rappaport: for better, for worse. I've sort of compiled a little menu
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Matthew Rappaport: of things
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Matthew Rappaport: that I tell people.
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Matthew Rappaport: okay, there's different risk levels to each of these different
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Matthew Rappaport: things you can do.
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Matthew Rappaport: And in addition.
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Matthew Rappaport: excuse me.
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Matthew Rappaport: there are things that I tell people not to do.
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Matthew Rappaport: There is a growing mountain
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Matthew Rappaport: of
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Matthew Rappaport: strategies out there that I feel are abusive. They're illegal, and they're going to get people to trouble. And I describe some of them
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Matthew Rappaport: on this program today, so you can watch out for them and you can ignore them. I heard about some of them when I was running around Capitol Hill yesterday. So I'll tell you about
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Matthew Rappaport: what Congress seems to think
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Matthew Rappaport: about some of this stuff.
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Matthew Rappaport: But there is a handful
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Matthew Rappaport: of strategies that I consider to be more or less on the in between. They're aggressive.
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Matthew Rappaport: I think they work. Basically, I don't think the Irs is going to be amused with them, but every one of us has clients
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Matthew Rappaport: they want to take the risk of us disclose to them, and they are just like that. They're risk friendly.
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Matthew Rappaport: And they wanna do certain stuff that as long as they can get an advantage.
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Matthew Rappaport: and they can stay out of prison they'll take the chances on things like penalties and all sorts of other consequences. And I'm I'm happy to give them disclosures in writing about
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Matthew Rappaport: what kind of risk they're taking. But it's a risk, nonetheless. So what this program will describe over the next 25 min is the stuff I've seen
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Matthew Rappaport: and I'm gonna go red, light, yellow, light green light, basically on all of this, and let you know what my thoughts are, because
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Matthew Rappaport: there's a good variety now, and I feel like the Irs. Still, after all the hemming and hawing, you have a lot of these debt ceiling deals that have cut off the inflation reduction act funding that was supposed to go to the Irs and restore them to some level of firepower that could allow them to
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Matthew Rappaport: properly examine these things and enforce against them, and they still don't have it.
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Matthew Rappaport: The disclaimer is super important today. Please don't run around with this stuff and then start implementing it, and then turn around and say, Hey, oh, Matthew told me on that one webinar about it.
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Matthew Rappaport: Please don't do that. Okay, this is an informational presentation. If you want to email me, don't call me if you want to email me
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Matthew Rappaport: and say, Hey, do you know the person who is going ahead and implementing strategy? A strategy? BI am very happy to make an introduction for you, but
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Matthew Rappaport: don't run around. Then say, Oh, yeah. I relied on Matthew's little program with Yoni at, you know, 8 30 in the morning on April eighteenth, 2024. Don't. Don't do that. So okay.
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Matthew Rappaport: let's get into it. Ercs.
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Matthew Rappaport: I still see these things floating around. They're so bad.
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Matthew Rappaport: The the Ercs were part of the COVID-19 legislation
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Matthew Rappaport: that allowed a
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Matthew Rappaport: Really, you know, in synthesis with the Ppp loans
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Matthew Rappaport: is meant to keep
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Matthew Rappaport: employees on payroll during the COVID-19
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Matthew Rappaport: periods which were in really like 2021, you know, a tiny slice of of 22. And then basically at the, you know, after that.
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Matthew Rappaport: you're not really eligible anymore. But
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Matthew Rappaport: the thing about Ercs, the bungled implementation of it was.
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Matthew Rappaport: yeah. Rcs were
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Matthew Rappaport: and by that I mean, one could file an amended 9 41. You have to file an amended payroll tax. Return to claim this.
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Matthew Rappaport: The thing about the Erc is again. It's a
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Matthew Rappaport: it's all on the payroll tax, like a lot of people have the misconception that this comes from.
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Matthew Rappaport: You know your 1040, or, you know, 1120 s. 1065. It doesn't really come from that. It comes from the payroll tax returns.
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Matthew Rappaport: So when it comes to the Rc. Right? You're amending your payroll tax. Return to claim this. If you were eligible, and the thing is.
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Matthew Rappaport: there was an objective test which was about the decline in gross receipts that was easy to measure.
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Matthew Rappaport: And then there was the
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Matthew Rappaport: more nebulous subject of tests, which was whether or not a government order
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Matthew Rappaport: cost you to partially or fully suspend your operations. That is the one that's being abused, that the client grocer seats test is pretty easy to measure.
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Matthew Rappaport: But the the problem that you ran into was
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Matthew Rappaport: are now being.
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Matthew Rappaport: I mean, even with the moratorium that the Government put in place. On actually processing these.
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Matthew Rappaport: the Ercs became promoted. There were folks that were quote unquote, consulting, that were taking
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Matthew Rappaport: fees based on a percentage of the of the refund that came back off the amended 9 41 s.
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Matthew Rappaport: They were sometimes going in there and preparing them irresponsibly. They were claiming that
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Matthew Rappaport: folks who are eligible who are, in fact, not eligible. They were claiming that folks were eligible for more than they actually were eligible, for
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Matthew Rappaport: and it became a multi-billion dollar, fraudulent sort of thing.
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Matthew Rappaport: And I hope that everybody on a call is aware of how badly these things are being.
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Matthew Rappaport: I guess us
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Matthew Rappaport: frowned upon by the Government Enforcement mechanism. Whether that comes from the legislative branch, the Enforcement branch everybody. They're so upset about how badly. This got abused like I said. The Irs is put a moratorium in place on processing these. They're going after the promoters.
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Matthew Rappaport: Anybody who has gone out there and mass marketed. Quote unquote, consulting for Ercs and going on the radio going on television, going on the Internet
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Matthew Rappaport: trying to solicit people site unseen.
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Matthew Rappaport: Those folks are going to get promoter audits
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Matthew Rappaport: every single one of those claims is going to be audited. And the Irs had a voluntary disclosure program that, I believe, recently expired. The Irs. Considering reopening it. There was over a hundred 1 million dollars of claims that in the voluntary disclosure program folks gave back. The voluntary disclosure program for Ercs is really good and really generous. They said, keep 80% of the credit 20% of whatever you got. You can keep.
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Matthew Rappaport: and you'll have no penalties, and you also have no interest, I think they said, and that was really good. Now, if they have to come, find you, and they have to come. Get the Erc money back. They are going to throw the book at you. They're going to throw everything at you interest penalties interest on the penalties they're gonna have. You pay the refund back. It's gonna be really bad. So I hope everybody knows enough to stay away from these things. But, man, this has been promoted super duper heavily, at great detriment to the overall
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Matthew Rappaport: system of tax fairness.
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Matthew Rappaport: conservation, easements, when these are done like the regular way. In other words, you have a a person who, you know she may own land. This is super popular. By the way, when you get to more wide open spaces. Not in. You know where most of us are in New York, although I gotta tell you when you go out East. You go to the Hamptons. You got the peaconic land trust and stuff. They still love these things. But
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Matthew Rappaport: you know you go upstate. These are popular, upstate, too. But these are most popular. I've come to find the Midwest in Big Sky country, in places where there are wide open spaces. Texas, for instance. Right.
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Matthew Rappaport: You could have a a person
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Matthew Rappaport: And basically put it, put an easement that says we're going to preserve all of this land for nature. You can do it on
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Matthew Rappaport: you can take a charitable income tax deduction for the appraised value of the land, subject to the easement
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Matthew Rappaport: and both sides of the aisle. Absolutely love this thing, both sides of them
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Matthew Rappaport: the left loves it because it's environmental preservation. The right loves it because it's a tax deduction. Here's problem
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Matthew Rappaport: in notice 2,017 dash 10, the Irs said. We are observing
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Matthew Rappaport: led by a promoter will get together in a tax partnership and invest a lot of money leverage that money.
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Matthew Rappaport: and then he wait a year, place a conservation easement on it, and then somehow get an appraisal that the highest and best use is like 4 times
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Matthew Rappaport: what the purchase price was a year ago, and then take a deduction accordingly. That deduction is super valuable. If you put in a dollar your tip. You were typically getting in these things in the most aggressive version, 7 $8 worth of deductions which were ordinary.
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Matthew Rappaport: $4 in your pocket, you get 4 extra investment pretty good. Except for the idea. The valuations were bogus, the Irs, and originally attacking these, tried to attack them on technical grounds. They had mixed success doing that. Now, what the Irs is doing is they're going after the appraisers, and they're throwing some of them in prison, the Doj announced an indictment and a successful indictment, I believe, of one of the appraisers involved in this. I believe in Georgia.
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Matthew Rappaport: and there will be others to follow syndicated conservation easements. Given the idea, I'll go to the next slide here just for you guys to see what the authority around this is. But given the idea that conservation easements
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Matthew Rappaport: There are now some clever variations being put up by promoters. Some of them are doing what they call fee simple deals. So you'll get promoters coming at you, saying, Oh, no, no, no, no! We're we're buying the land, and we're not donating the the conservation easement. So we get around the technical problems we are donating. The entire fee
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Matthew Rappaport: in my estimation still requires a bogus appraisal still requires way way, too much aggressiveness. And the Irs is going to go after those just as just as heavily as they've gone after their sister technique. The conservation easements.
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Matthew Rappaport: And these are bad. They're really really bad. If you wanna talk about Capitol Hill yesterday and running around these Congressional representative offices. Oh, they hate the syndicated version of this. They hate it. They love the regular version, love it. They're not gonna throw it out, you know. They don't wanna throw out the baby with the bath water.
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Matthew Rappaport: but con the syndicated conservation eases they cannot stand these, so Congress is angry. The Irs is angry, and I would not even touch these. If
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Matthew Rappaport: I were any client who was seeking something to help out with
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Matthew Rappaport: my tax situation. Split dollar
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Matthew Rappaport: split dollar is interesting because split dollar. There are many varieties of it. I go over a couple of them in this deck, but split dollar. If first off it's got 2 general regimes. There is.
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Matthew Rappaport: I believe, under Section 61 is the economic benefit regime, the economic benefit regime of of split dollar life insurance right in split dollar. The reason they call it split dollar is because there's somebody who pays the premiums. And there's somebody who gets the
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Matthew Rappaport: benefit of the actual product. And those are 2 different people. That's why they call them split dollar, because you're literally splitting
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Matthew Rappaport: the costs and the benefits associated with the life insurance that you're placing very popular in business. It's very popular as an as as a an executive benefit.
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Matthew Rappaport: but split dollar has been abused various ways over the years.
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Matthew Rappaport: notice 99, 36 was all the way back 25 years ago now, but it said charitable split dollars really bad, whereby you would have a charitable vehicle. Go ahead and get the benefits associated with, you know, paying the premiums that may have come with the policy, and then there would be a split of the death benefit between a private party and the Charity
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Matthew Rappaport: and the Irs is not amused by this. And they came out. They said, Yeah, we're we're not letting you do this anymore. The other thing that the Irs is not amused with was private split dollar. I will not protect the innocent. Just because the the practitioner who invented a private reverse split dollar is still around, and I'm friendly with him, and he is an exceptionally intelligent, exceptionally capable person.
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Matthew Rappaport: He invented private reverse, split dollar and an absolute genius move.
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Matthew Rappaport: and Congress was not amused. And then, once they got wind of it, they passed a law prohibiting it. Private reverse split dollar basically took advantage of the idea
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Matthew Rappaport: or a deemed wealth transfer between generations. If, say, a senior generation paid the insurance associated with
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Matthew Rappaport: you know, junior generation right? And there would be a deemed wealth transfer if you had a split dollar regime where the senior generation was was the pay, or but what if the junior generation was the pay or and the senior generation benefited from it? The the way that the the deem transfer between generations would work is that it would be the
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Matthew Rappaport: for one year of term life insurance on the insured. Well, if the senior generation is the insured right, and you could get the transfer to to go from you know.
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Matthew Rappaport: senior to junior right the way. The private reverse split dollar worked in a nutshell was there was a Dean transfer from senior to junior generation of the term
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Matthew Rappaport: for the senior generation, which is typically extremely high, except the way that that the split dollar regulations would work under a state and gift
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Matthew Rappaport: would not have a negative transfer tax federal transfer tax meaning a state and gift. You wouldn't have a negative transfer tax consequence for for that amount of premium. It sort of spl. It flipped the intention of the split dollar regulations on its head, and it was super clever, except the the I. Congress was just like. They took one look at it, and they said, We can't do this.
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Matthew Rappaport: So what is split dollar looking at today? Right? Intergenerational family split dollar is not really about taking the
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Matthew Rappaport: cost of term life insurance and and transferring it from senior generation to junior generation tax free anymore? What? What intergenerational family split dollar does
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Matthew Rappaport: is it takes like a buy sell agreement, for instance, in a family business.
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Matthew Rappaport: and it enters a split dollar agreement between senior generation and junior generation.
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Matthew Rappaport: It's typically loan regime, I think. Economic benefit regime, I think, is less popular. Now it's loan regime, which is under Section 78, 72,
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Matthew Rappaport: and in a intergenerational family split dollar agreement. What'll happen is as part of that. Buy, sell, agreement.
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Matthew Rappaport: The senior generation will pay the premiums to a trust for the benefit of junior generation, and and the insured person will be the
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Matthew Rappaport: junior generation. And then what'll happen is right. What? Let's just say mother is is paying for insurance on daughter's life. The insurance is held in in A In a life insurance trust, and the split dollar arrangement says that Mom is gonna pay the premiums.
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Matthew Rappaport: you know, is is merely going to clock consequences according to the term life insurance cost on daughter, which is typically not that much because daughter is typically younger and healthier.
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Matthew Rappaport: You can have an actuarial estimate of when daughter's gonna die. And it's really the latter that you control. And and they took positions that the valuation discounts on these should be like 60%, 70%. And what this really was at the end of the day was a wealth transfer vehicle by which you you need not use
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Matthew Rappaport: and that was set forth in the gift tax related regulations that govern split dollar.
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Matthew Rappaport: taxpayers are taking relatively aggressive positions. If you paid a million dollars in premiums, they were saying. By the time the senior generation died, the value and senior generations estate was like $420,000. I mean something ridiculous
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Matthew Rappaport: and a state of Mars. And the state of Lavine basically tested this out. The state of Mar said, had really really, really good facts.
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Matthew Rappaport: and the the taxpayer in both Marset and Laveen. One on all the technical grounds in Mar said the valuation was statement. Penalty, though, was really hefty, because they said, there is no way the discounts that high.
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Matthew Rappaport: And I think on this one you have to be really aggressive. This one here's here's the way I. I use this one because the Irs is not amused with this, and they're
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Matthew Rappaport: They're going in. And they are really, really badly enforcing against this.
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Matthew Rappaport: of Hey, what do we do? You can consider this. But, man, do you need an aggressive client for it, because between Marissa Levine, the overall enforcement attitude it is a jungle out there on intergenerational family split dollar. And it's it's it's a tough environment. So I would say, proceed with great great caution around this one.
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Matthew Rappaport: Senator Wyden.
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Matthew Rappaport: famously. This is all over the tax press. Senator Wyden released a report on this. Pvi. What is this in a nutshell? Pvi is basically, could you take variable life insurance and then designate an investment manager to whom you are not related, and and that investment manager can't be supported to you. But if you designate an an independent investment manager and have that person place the money in the separate account of the variable life insurance policy.
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Matthew Rappaport: would be the benefits? Somebody ask some devious mind. Ask if you could take the the variable life insurance money, and you could place it anywhere you want
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Matthew Rappaport: rather than just a menu that's put forth by an insurance company
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Matthew Rappaport: like New York life, or Northwestern, or something. You will get a variable life insurance policy from from a a retail company like that, they'll tell you. Well, this is the menu of stuff that you can invest in.
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Matthew Rappaport: Somebody turned around and said, Well, what if you could invest it in anything?
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Matthew Rappaport: You know. Ppli takes advantage of the idea that under Section 72, the cash value, and you know any return you get on the cash value. The insurance is generally not taxed as long as you structure the policy the right way.
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Matthew Rappaport: Senator Wyden did an investigation, and in my estimation, Senator Wyden's.
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Matthew Rappaport: which which was in February, by the way, that he came out with the report. He gave subpoenas last year, and then they and then everybody complied.
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Matthew Rappaport: and he came out with the report. The problem is that Senator Wyden subpoenaed like only the largest providers which would make it doing the most conservative things. With this.
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Matthew Rappaport: I I've seen some really crazy stuff get done with Pvi, and in my estimation Senator Wyden's report doesn't really scratch the surface of what is going on in this arena. I like Pvi for certain people.
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Matthew Rappaport: I like them for people in the financial industry
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Matthew Rappaport: where they are risk friendly, and they typically invest in their friends funds, and
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Matthew Rappaport: you know their friends already have vehicles that can accept life insurance money. You have to set up a special vehicle in order for
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Matthew Rappaport: private equity or a hedge fund. But a lot of those private equity and hedge funds have smartened up, and they've set up those mirror vehicles. And they allow people to invest through these types of policies. The advantage of this is that any investment that's done through a life insurance company. You know, there's no current taxation on any investment returns or growth in the investor value. And then, by the time that one dies, you know. Section 101 says that as long as you haven't had a transfer for value during life.
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Matthew Rappaport: the proceeds are paid out to the beneficiary without taxes.
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Matthew Rappaport: This is good for aggressive clients. It's gotta be used the right way. And there are things that people are doing in order to get more exotic assets into the cash value
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Matthew Rappaport: portion of the life insurance policy that are like really high flying, that I'm not sure I I agree, or actually kosher.
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Matthew Rappaport: So the vanilla providers, the larger providers, I think they're doing stuff that is pretty good and ways and means. By the way, when I was visiting with me ways and means yesterday. There is no proposal to act on Senator Wyden's report, so, even though Senator Wyden is angry and he's brought it to the public, for this doesn't seem to be changing
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Matthew Rappaport: captives especially micro captives.
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Matthew Rappaport: the I mean, these are out there. But man micro captives they hate them.
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Matthew Rappaport: Regular captive insurance is really good. Captain insurance under section 8, 31 B. It says you can get like a 2 plus 1 million dollar
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Matthew Rappaport: maximum deduction for premiums that you pay to an insurance company you set up for your own business, you know. They say they call it captive, because at the end of the day it's a it's now a related company cluster. I have an operating business. This works really great, for like waste management, private medical practices, construction,
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Matthew Rappaport: manufacturing a distribution, food and beverage. This works great because their insurance con their insurance costs are off the wall, and if you use captives, right?
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Matthew Rappaport: You can get a tax benefit while also getting a financial benefit while also getting an insurance benefit. It's very powerful. The problem is, it has to be designed responsibly. If it's designed as a microcaptive, the Irs hates it, and Congress hates it, and they're just gonna hit you over the head with a sledgehammer.
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Matthew Rappaport: But if you lead with the insurance need.
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Matthew Rappaport: and you just have to make sure you're setting it up with a responsible provider. But yeah, I I still like captives in the right situation. But, man, these micro captives are super toxic, and that that gets a red light for me. Shark fin clouds. I like shark fin clouds. They've become more popular recently.
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Matthew Rappaport: you know, this is
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Matthew Rappaport: strategy whereby if somebody has a major income tax event, you set up a shark fin cloud, and what you're doing is you are pushing the
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Matthew Rappaport: you know, money you would otherwise pay in income taxes toward premium
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Matthew Rappaport: that can pay into a life insurance policy that's going to benefit your
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Matthew Rappaport: where you have income, tax, estate, tax and gift tax, and mathematically
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Matthew Rappaport: this thing set up so that the only way it can fail is that a very highly rated insurance company doesn't pay the death benefit. Otherwise
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Matthew Rappaport: you get about, I would say in the aggregate.
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Matthew Rappaport: maybe half the money in this vehicle. On average.
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Matthew Rappaport: you know, it's gonna depend on a number of factors, the age and health of the of the insured, the irs, tables, and how you punch the
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Matthew Rappaport: numbers is the Irs tables to design this thing. But you know, look, it's a regular clat, except it follows some literal language in a 2,007 revenue procedure.
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Matthew Rappaport: and it generates a charitable income tax deduction that's usable for up to 30 of Agi for the year you implement it.
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Matthew Rappaport: You set this thing up as a grant to trust you, get a nice income tax deduction. You get a nice benefit for your heirs
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Matthew Rappaport: I like it. I am, you know, if you want to talk on
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Matthew Rappaport: circular to 30 levels of confidence on this, I'm gonna should level of confidence on these things. I like them in the right situation. I think they work, you know, for a lot of clients. They want the benefit to go in their pocket, and then they don't want it to go to their errors. But for clients who are out of exemption, or just really care about estate planning and have a big income tax event, these things work really? Well. So I like them.
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Matthew Rappaport: These crat transactions. This is like, I've never seen these. I've seen crut transactions that are really bad. I've seen CRT transactions where where
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Matthew Rappaport: so as not to have the self Dealing rules apply, and then go ahead and and put a bunch of assets into the CRT and then start, you know. Put an Llc. Underneath the CRT. That's on 99% by the CRT. One by the tax payer. Then they borrow
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Matthew Rappaport: stuff out of the Llc. That's abusive. I I don't think they're referring to that based on what these regulations say, but these. I've never heard of these. I don't know anybody who's heard of these. I've seen things in the tax press where people are like. I don't even know where these things are are going on. But the Irs was so angry about them they started passing regulations, which was like crazy, and and they don't. I don't know. I if anybody's seen this, I would love to get an email from you. But I've never seen the crats out there that they're talking about in these regulations.
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Matthew Rappaport: this is part of a category here of like, oh, if syndicated conservation needs really bad, what can I do to start generating income tax deductions on a leverage basis. Exploratory oil and gas.
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Matthew Rappaport: You can do it.
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Matthew Rappaport: It's a really risky financial investment. These things tend to go bust. But you can leverage these things and you can get into them. And then solar. The problem with solar is, it's very tough to get around the pass of activity rules, oil and gas. You can get around the pass of activity and at risk rules, because there's special rules for oil and gas. Not so much for solar.
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Matthew Rappaport: In addition, I've got somebody doing a car wash fund with a lot of accelerated depreciation. If you're interested in that, I can put you in touch. And like.
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Matthew Rappaport: you know, again, you gotta get around a passive activity rules. You gotta get around a couple of other sort of things. But you know, people have come up with really clever designs for this, and I'm also aware of an equipment leasing
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Matthew Rappaport: deal that's pretty nifty. So there's a cluster of like 4 of these that'll get you some decent deductions.
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Matthew Rappaport: Promoters of a lot of stuff now, have have really high powered lawyers because of how much money they're making. So notice, 2,007 dash, 83. Abusive welfare, benefit plans. Man construction was an abusive welfare benefit plan. And then, they wanted to headed to the collateral attack on the listed transaction regulations.
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Matthew Rappaport: and they want.
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Matthew Rappaport: So now, all of a sudden, right? I went back to the abusive crat thing. They came out with regulations. That's what they have to do now, instead of the the listing notices because of this man construction case, which is crazy, right? So what do they do in in Regs? They they did a Reg against the Me. Intermediary installment sales. If you'd like my Bloomberg article on this that I wrote in 2,016, you can send me an email, and I'll send you a Pdf. These are so bad their promoters coming in and saying, Oh, do you have a large sale event?
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Matthew Rappaport: Then what we can do is we can step in with our company. We can step in the middle of the buyer and the seller you, the seller, will sell the asset to us. It could be business, it could be real estate, it could be artwork. Sell it to us. We'll give you back an installment note. You pay taxes and installments. We'll turn right around and we'll sell that asset at the same cost
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Matthew Rappaport: to the ultimate buyer.
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Matthew Rappaport: and the service is not amuse with these. The promoters are all getting audited, and all their client lists are getting turned over to the Irs, and these are so bad it's a red light on these. I hate these so anyway. I hope this was helpful. It's always tough to
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Matthew Rappaport: squeeze these things into a half an hour. I'm turning this back over to Yoni, who I will thank for having me as always. And you know, you want any more information. Here's my email, just I'm I'm bad with the phone. Just try not to call me
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Matthew Rappaport: but other than that. You know you send me an email. I'm happy to send you more information on this stuff and strategize with you and your clients if they want to start getting fancy
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Matthew Rappaport: all right, you only take it away.
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Jonathan Shenkman, ParkBridge Wealth Management: Right? Thanks so much, Matt. If anyone has any specific questions, new business opportunities there, any other issues I'd like to discuss. Please feel free to reach out directly to Matt or myself, where appropriate. Now be sure to include his contact information again in the follow up email of this program. As I mentioned at the onset, the goal. These programs stay up to date on timely wealth management related topics and to collaborate where appropriate. I think we can all agree that the clients were best prepared are the ones that are served by team of knowledgeable advisors.
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