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Tax Planning
Developing tax-efficient strategies to protect and grow your wealth
Whether you are planning for your own retirement, a loved one’s education, or the best way to transfer your wealth to the next generation, any sound, forward-looking plan to maximize your wealth needs to take taxes into account. Everything we do for our clients is viewed first through a tax efficient lens.
That means not just looking at the current tax year, it means looking for tax efficient ways to give to charitable causes that are meaningful to you, to save for and fund education, to pass your wealth to the next generation, and fund your retirement paycheck. Our careful attention to details and years of experience developing tax-efficient strategies will all go to work for you.
Tax Planning Services
- Annual income tax planning
- Coordination with your tax preparer or CPA
- Roth conversion strategy management
- Annual tax projection review
- Medicare premiums management
- Employee benefits analysis
- Tax deferred contribution recommendations
- Annual tax return review
- Lifetime income tax planning – Consider tax rates over your entire life to find opportunities to reduce your lifetime taxes and maximize resources for your family.
- Income event tax planning – Whether selling a business or receiving a stock reward, planning for income events ahead of time can reduce the tax burden.
- Estate tax planning – Help you find strategic ways to limit the tax consequences of passing on significant wealth to your family.
- Required minimum distribution management
- Inherited IRA administration
Related News & Insights
Five Lifetime Tax Management Tips for High Net Worth Families
Another tax season is upon us. Another year of handing your CPA a slew of paperwork, and hoping for the best. In addition to reporting your 2023 taxable income, why not start taking some tax-savvy steps to limit your lifetime tax exposure? Especially for families with high net worth, lifetime tax planning can be far more effective than tackling your tax management one year at a time. The following are five ways you or your financial advisor can seek to rein in your total tax burden over time.
Anastasia Wiese’s GRBJ Commentary: Pay Off Debt or Invest?
In today’s climate of low interest rate loans, many investors have been asking a variation on the same question: Is “extra,” discretionary cash best used to pay down debt – such as mortgages, auto loans, student loans or credit card balances – or to invest toward retirement? In her February 22 Grand Rapids Business Journal column, Anastasia Wiese, JD, CFP® covers how to make good choices either way: “Ultimately, every action you take to advance your overall financial picture should move you closer to a place of decreased anxiety and increased satisfaction with your financial situation.”
What is Regulation Best Interest and How Does It Impact you?
If you’re not a financial practitioner, you may have missed the news that the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Regulation Best Interest (Regulation BI) rule took effect on June 30 of this year. The rule doesn’t require anything of investors and is aimed at financial advisors offering investment advice and recommendations, but what is Regulation BI, how does it impact you and can it offer you a fiduciary level of care?
Working in partnership with Grand Wealth Management enables our clients to be less concerned about the day-to-day details of managing their finances, while allowing them to stay involved in guiding and monitoring their overall financial picture.
