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#03: Buy-Sell Agreements and Succession Planning

Information on buy-sell methods, how to value and protect ownership, and how to finance the buyout for owners, executives, and family members of closely held businesses.
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#07: Criteria for Setting Your Compensation

Guidelines for setting compensation to help you determine, increase, and justify your annual salary, and that of your executives, spouse and other family members. Includes 12 compensation criteria, cautions, loans, and other issues.
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#13: Renting and Leasing Properties: For Both Tenants and Landlords

What to know, how to uncover the risks of a lease, negotiating ideas, big-dollar questions to ask, provisions to guard against, providing for future needs, purchase option, and a glossary of rental terms.
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#22: Money To and From Your Company: For Owners, Executives, and Family

How to avoid the severe tax implications of loans from your company that the IRS views as taxable compensation or a dividend. Applies to owners, partners, board members, employees, family members, and affiliated businesses.
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#23-A. Why You Should Personally Own Your Company’s Facilities

A Wealth-Building Strategy for You and Your Family to Own Assets Outside the Business
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#29: Your Will and Estate: Will It Do What You Want It to Do?

What to know and how to design a will that saves your heirs taxes and distributes assets according to your intentions. Includes codicils, family transactions, IRS alerts and cautions, distribution options, trusts, estate planning, and a Family Information Roadmap.
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#30: Your Insurance: Getting the Most from Your Life Insurance Dollars and Protecting What You Have

A comprehensive checklist to audit all of your personal and business insurance coverage, including an inventory of policies/coverage, identifying gaps, selecting settlement options, and 17 ways to reduce and effectively use premium outlays.
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#31: Your Home: Mortgages, Refinancings, Ownership, Sale, Insurance, and Taxation

The rules, restrictions, and options on the increasingly complex management task of home ownership. Includes analysis of mortgage financings, home equity loans, second and vacation homes, property insurance, and business use of a home.
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#33: Your Retirement: A Roadmap for Your Retirement Planning

How to design a retirement plan that considers all legal and tax options, with planning options, retirement income model, contribution options and limits, use of IRAs/Roth IRA, and compliance and recordkeeping. Includes 27 facts and alerts to use today.
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#34: Your Business: How the IRS Values a Family Business for Heirs, Successors, Gifts, and Estate Taxes

To help you establish the value of a family business for your family, heirs, successors, or the IRS. Includes a Case Study, review of goodwill, use of discounts, and 8 valuation methods with a final weighted value.
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#35-A. Annual Review: Company Minutes, Compensation, and Family Dealings

To Help You Stay Out of Trouble with Other Company Owners, Creditors, the IRS, and To Comply with State Laws
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#39: How to Maximize Retirement Income and Minimize Taxes

How to increase your after-tax retirement income, with a review of your retirement money, income, withdrawal options, taxation, Roth IRA, and strategies to increase your after-tax income after retirement.
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  • Four Action Alerts on Purchasing, Inventory, and Suppliers
  • Facts and Due Diligence to Adequately Protect Your Home
  • Have You Selected the Right Executor/Executrix?
  • Know Facts and Cautions on Buying Zero Coupon Bonds vs. Regular Bonds
  • Protect Assets and Net Worth with Umbrella Insurance
  • How to Automatically Increase Your Life Insurance
  • Use of a Living Trust Is Not for Everyone
  • Owner Is Forced to Sell, but Gets Cash and Affiliate
  • What Investment and Workshop Expenses Are Tax Deductible?
  • Business Association Insurance Can Reduce Costs

Our Idea of the Month are brief articles designed to help you save money, protect your assets, make more-informed decisions, and increase your personal and business wealth.


Tom MartinThe Ideas of the Month are principally written by Thomas J. Martin, publisher and president, author, lecturer, consultant, investment banker, college professor, and founder of our publishing company in 1977. For 39 years, Tom has helped hundreds of businesses and individuals on many of the topics covered on this website. The Case Studies are actual, real-life examples of how businesses and individuals solved problems, took advantage of opportunities, and met big challenges. For subjects covered, please see Solutions (15 Critical Subject Areas) in the Menu Bar at the left side of this page. Enjoy and we look forward to reading your comments

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