Do You Actually Need A Holding Company?
How a holding company can reduce taxes, protect assets, and improve long-term planning for some Canadians – while creating unnecessary cost and complexity for others.
5 Signs You Actually Need A Holding Company
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Show Notes
A holding company can be one of the most valuable planning tools in Canada.
Or it can be a complete waste of money.
For the right person, it can protect assets, improve tax planning, and preserve opportunities that would otherwise be lost. For the wrong person, it’s just unnecessary cost and complexity.
In This Solo, We Cover:
• The 5 Signs you may actually need a holding company
• Why surplus corporate cash can become a hidden risk
• How investment income can create avoidable tax problems
• The costly mistake one real estate investor was making every year
• Why business owners should think about planning long before a sale
• Who should not set up a holding company
The biggest mistake isn’t failing to create a holding company.
It’s creating one before you know whether it solves a problem you actually have.
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