•Limited liability
•Separate entity
•Lower tax rates
•Costly to maintain
•Lifespan is perpetual
•Easier to raise capital.
•Tax payer in its own right
•Consists of shareholders
•Personal asset protection
•Transfer of ownership is easy
- The graph depicts the benefit of using the system to separate personal liabilities.
If you are a S/P with assets, you’ll be at risk - (unlimited liability)
The rich know this, it’s how they scale, separate assets + get tax breaks.
It’s set up to incentivize this behavior.
- Pty Ltd’s
Check @IvynSambo thread of how to set up a small business. (company)
You can register with @BizPortalGovZa to set up a South African business.
•Do not die-no estate duty
•Income is still distributed
•Offers tax efficiency
•Protection of assets
•Creditor protection
Most people set up trusts once they already have several companies and a large asset base.
- Trusts
You won’t just go and set up a trust, unless you need to;
Firstly,
cause its costly to maintain. It needs to be worth the amount saved in tax to make it viable,
and this comes when you have a high net-worth. The idea of trusts is to reduce tax liabilities.
- Trusts continued,
Secondly,
tax is steep in a trust (45%)
The wealthy use it as a tool to mitigate tax liabilities.
They probably have several companies already that are beneficiaries of their trusts. (Conduit principle)
•They separate liabilities from their personal name
• They hide assets in complicated company structures.
• Own companies through companies and trusts.
You won’t win at the game if you don’t know how to play.
- My company, FundUp, set up our structure like this.👇🏽
We started as a stokvel, and have slowly progressed to this.
We loan capital to the business and issue shares.
We’ll eventually open recruitment to the public where we’ll try use access to cheaper capital to leverage
• How we started
It’s a long process to get to where you want to be, but start.
Build your own capital, then use bank financing to leverage, then reduce costs by recruiting members and offering them return on their capital, lower than it would cost you to borrow from bank.
Build your Income Empire Following These Trusted Methods
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•Active vs Passive Income
In this thread,
we’ll be looking at ways to build a Passive Income Empire.
Dubbed PIE #pie
First, we need to understand the differences:
-Active income:
Trading time for money
-Passive income:
Money earned that requires little effort to maintain
•Stocks
Dividends,baby!!
I see you PIE lovers sharing your screenshots when they arrive👏
Dividends are the most predictable. Companies pay them out from profits. If they use debt to pay dividends, then, I have 3 words for you; RUN, RUN, RUN