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Deferred Sales Trust | in a nutshell

nutshellThe § 453 deferred sales trust (DT) is a little known gem that legally defers capital gains taxes on real estate, business, crypto sales (and other property) for decades.  

Because of the decades-long delay, you can cover your capital gains taxes from the returns made on your DT's, and have a whole other fortune to boot.

Your middleman trust takes the transfer of your property, sells it, and keep the sale proceeds tax-free for as long as your expected life span under IRS tables. 

Your DT trust can generate an otherwise lost fortune - even larger than your original capital gain! - in compounding returns for your family just from the tax retained in your trust.  The IRS gets the tax decades later after being ravaged by inflation.

Opes Trust is the only place teaching you how to legally appoint your own independent, low-to-no cost Trustee, saving annual real estate level corporate trustee commissions (1.5% every year on all DT trust balances), turning your DT into what may be the most powerful wealth creating engine in your investment arsenal.

NUTS & BOLTS

nuts & boltsIRS Code, section 453 authorizes installment sales of real estate, businesses, and other property (not publicaly traded stocks and bonds) where sellers don't have to pay capital gains tax until they receive their installments. 

The IRS and courts agree that sellers can use middleman non-grantor irrevocable trust - a DT trust - to take transfered  property from the seller, and then sell it to a 3rd party buyer, retaining and reinvesting the capital gains taxes until the proceeds are distributed to the seller.

The DT owes no taxes from the property transfer because it sold the property for the exact amount acquired.  The DT retains the sale proceeds, tax-free, compounds them with reinvestment for decades to build a fortune unavailable to other not in the know.

The DT pays the seller installments, with interest.  And the seller pays pro-rata capital gains tax, only to the extent and at the time of installment payments.

By retaining and compounding returns on the capital gains tax a new fortune is built for your family which will not only cover the capital gains taxes, but may dwarf the entire original capital gain which would have otherwise been squandered by lesser informed investor plebs.

HAVE YOUR CAKE & EAT IT TOO

cakeThere are no 1031 like-kind reinvestment restrictions with DTs.  You do not have to reinvest within a 45 day window or only in real estate of equal or greater value.

You can strategically sit in cash and invest in the alternative assets of your investing heart's desire and timing.

The reinvestment shackles are off with DTs.

The installment term can be as long as the seller's expected life span, determined by IRS actuary tables.  And you can wait to take the last installment in the last month of you expected lifespan in order maximize DT tax-free compounding.

You can even include a clause in the DT that leaves the gains untaxed in your DT if you die before your installment date - the only way to avoid capital gains taxes altogether!

DISADVANTAGES OF DEFERRED SALES TRUST PROBLEMS

You have to have an independent trustee for DTs that's not statutorily "related" to you.  There's a cottage industry of corporate deferred sales trust shops charging 1.5% of the entire trust proceeds to set it up, and another 1.5% per year, every year, of all principal and DST trust gains.  These are real estate agent level commissions charged every year which will ruin all, if not most, of your DT benefits.

THE FIX:  you can have your good friend, an in-law, or any manner of other legally qualified and trusted person in your life (that is not closely related to you) act as your trustee free of these debilitating annual corporate trustee commissions.

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