Yes.. and in this case he's claiming to own a holding company that is running the family trust.When your "family trust corporation" distributes assets to your family they pay income tax.Your corporation can only pay for your corporate related expenses. Anything else would have to be reported as income. If you have "no" income at all but money in the bank .. where did the money come from, FYI that is a red flag that usually indicates your millions came from illegal activities, such as selling drugs If you have no assets... you are broke. You can't be wealthy with no assets. If you have assets where did they come from, if not income?
Again your statements make no sense.
One of my corporations is a family trust that derives it's income from investments. What is the business of a family trust?
Your tax rates changed since last year? Why, and what is the difference?
Extrapolating from this context... when you claimed low effective tax rates what you were really doing is "deferring" taxes on income to some later time by not distributing accruing assets of the family trust. IOW your trust is acting like a 401k where you don't have to pay taxes till you take the money out for personal use. The business of your family trust is to grow the family trust for later withdrawals.
Since last year? Huh? Who's talking about next years taxes?
A family trust is simply an ordinary trust in which beneficiaries are members of the trust grantor’s family. Although trust assets are not taxed unless they earn income, trust income is generally taxed in the same way as personal income. Under some circumstances, however, you can use a family trust to obtain tax advantages.
IOW... he's claiming in some really odd calculation of his, a reduction of "effective" tax rate for income that he deferred. My guess is that either his accountant is feeding him a load of bullshit, or he's just goggled up how do rich people shelter income. Either way he's confused. But it will become clear when he finds out he has to pay income tax on the distributions.
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