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Main Street Business

#529 Tax Advisor Playbook: Help Your Clients Establish A Family Board

Main Street Business

Mark J Kohler and Mat Sorensen

Management, Tax Tips, Entrepreneurship, Accounting, Business, Business Structure, Estate Planning, Tax Reform, Legal Compliance, Tax Prep, Tax Strategies, Financial Reporting, Irs Updates

4.8584 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Main Street Business podcast, host Mark J. Kohler focuses on the transformative role of family board meetings in a business context. He discusses how these meetings are crucial for asset protection, tax planning, and promoting family unity, offering a blueprint for implementing these strategies effectively in any business environment. Here are some of the highlights: Mark introduces the concept of family board meetings and how it can be used for LLCs (board of advisors)...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Main Street Business Podcast with your distinguished hosts, Mark J. Kohler and Matt Sorensen.

0:05.5

Both are best-selling authors and have over 25 years of industry experience with 10,000 client consultations,

0:12.3

making them the leading tax and legal experts in the nation.

0:16.1

Together, they'll unpack the most complex tax, legal, and financial strategies,

0:20.6

crucial for saving more,

0:22.1

stressing less, and building generational wealth. Today, they're your personal advisors.

0:28.1

Ready to break it down for you and make the tax and legal game easier than ever. Here is Mark and Matt.

0:34.5

In today's video, I'm going to teach you how to help your clients establish a family

0:38.6

board. This could be a board of advisors for LLCs or board of directors for a small corporation.

0:44.1

These board meetings are a tax write-off. They create better asset protection and even audit

0:49.7

protection. You need one of these boards. And when you do this for your clients, they are going to love you. Now, I'm a certified public accountant, attorney, bestselling author, podcaster, YouTube personality. I've done over 10,000 consultations helping clients all over the country. And I currently train almost a thousand different CPA and enrolled agents around the country to become certified tax

1:11.7

advisors. But most importantly, I'm a business owner myself and I'm a dad. And my family board

1:17.6

meetings are precious to me. This is a chance for me to leave a legacy, teach my kids financial

1:22.3

literacy, and teach small business. Now, what is a board?

1:30.4

Now, it's actually pretty easy to get our heads around.

1:31.9

We just don't apply it to ourselves.

1:37.2

We can think of Microsoft in their board meetings or Amazon or Apple.

1:39.4

They all have big corporate boards, right?

1:42.7

Well, even a small business owner can have a board.

1:49.5

In fact, with a corporation in all 50 states, you're required to have officers and a board of directors.

1:58.3

And with every LLC, we've been setting up in our law firm for at least the last 10 years, we ask our client, have you thought about a board of advisors?

2:02.5

You can have a board of advisors in your LLC. It's a standard provision in all of our operating agreements. So with a corporation, most likely your clients

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