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When the sale of a business yields substantial gains, it will trigger a tax bill that, at times, can be substantial. There could be significant tax advantages to donating a portion of a business to the Dunham Donor-Advised Fund. A philanthropically-minded family can use the fund to decrease their tax liability and create a charitable giving strategy. Their efforts will leave a positive impact for their children and grandchildren to follow.
Case Study
A married couple is selling their insurance business they owned for many years for $5 million. The company has no debt, and as a service business, it has no real cost basis. This exposes the total of $5 million to taxation.
Their taxes will include a 20% capital gains tax and a 7% state tax. Combined, it will be a total tax of 27%.
The couple expresses to their financial advisor how they would like to be more charitably active in their retirement. Their financial advisor suggests donating $1 million of the equity from the sale of the business to the Dunham Donor-Advised Fund to decrease the taxes paid on the gain and establish their family gifting program through the fund.
Let us examine three possible scenarios in the sale of the business:
- They sell and make no donation.
- They sell and make the donation as cash after they sell the business.
- They transfer the $1 million of equity before they go to contract and allow the Dunham Donor-Advised Fund to sell that portion of their business to eliminate the capital gains tax on the $1 million.
As you can see, having the Dunham Donor-Advised Fund sell the portion of the business inside the funds creates the most significant tax efficiency. Not only do they receive a tax deduction on the gift, but they eliminate the capital gains on the portion the Dunham Donor-Advised Fund sold.
Said differently, the $1 million donation they placed in their Dunham Donor-Advised Fund only cost them $290,000 net after taxes. Yet, their family will bestow $1 million worth of generosity, plus the investment return their financial advisor can generate on the account, to their charities.
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(1) Please remember that there are annual income tax deduction limits for gifts made to public charities, including donor-advised funds. For contributions of non-cash assets held more than one year, like the hypothetical situation above, is 30% of adjusted gross income (AGI) for the tax year of the gift. It is 60% of AGI for contributions of cash. You may carry over donation amounts in excess of these deductions for up to five tax years.
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