Family Trusts
Minimize tax burden weighting on your family
We have a variety of techniques of using family trusts to facilitate financial and tax planning for different objectives, including:
- tax minimization through income splitting of investment income and capital gains with family members with little or no income
- multiple access to lifetime capital gains exemption
- deferral of capital gains
- tax-loss selling
- creditor proofing of assets and income
- retaining control over assets
- US estate plans for US-situs properties through the use of discretionary inter-vivo trusts
We coordinate with the client’s legal counsel to implement the trust planning, including review of any required legal documents prepared by the legal counsel.
We can also prepare or review trust tax returns that involve complex situations.