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Could a Long-Term Deal Ease Your Succession Planning Woes?

Some business owners — particularly those who founded their companies — may find it hard to give up control to a successor. Maybe you just can’t identify the right person internally to fill your shoes. While retirement isn’t in your immediate future, you know you must eventually step down.

One potential solution is to find an outside buyer for your company and undertake a long-term deal to gradually cede control to them. Going this route can enable a transition to proceed at a more manageable pace.

Time and capital

For privately held businesses, long-term deals typically begin with the business owner selling a minority stake to a potential buyer. This initiates a tryout period to assess the two companies’ compatibility. The parties may sign an agreement in which the minority stakeholder has the option to offer a takeover bid after a specified period.

Beyond clearing a path for your succession plan, the deal also may provide needed capital. You can use the cash infusion from selling a minority stake to fund improvements such as:

Hiring additional staff,
Paying down debt,
Conducting research and development, or
Expanding your facilities.

Any or all of these things can help grow your company’s market share and improve […]

By Linkenheimer LLP|2020-09-03T20:04:38+00:00June 7th, 2018|planning, succession planning|0 Comments

Congratulations to Carli Ortiz for AICPA Standing Ovation Award

Congratulation to Linkenheimer Partner Carli Ortiz for being honored as 1 of 16 CPAs under 40 for their contributions to personal financial planning. See the ACIPA press release below for more info:

LAS VEGAS (June 13, 2017) – The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) today honored 16 CPAs under the age of 40 for their contributions to personal financial planning with the second annual Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Standing Ovation. The recipients were honored at the AICPA’s Advanced Personal Financial Planning Conference in Las Vegas, part of AICPA ENGAGE.

“The AICPA is pleased to recognize each of these honorees for their contributions to personal financial planning,” said Andrea Millar, CPA/PFS, AICPA’s Director of Personal Financial Planning. “Each of these young PFS credential holders has gone beyond providing excellent client services to earn this honor. Their work underscores the contribution CPAs are able to make in the field of financial planning at an early age.”

Some examples of the contributions this group of CPAs has made to the profession include streamlining processes to provide a better client experience, developing software to help manage the practice, providing financial literacy workshops in their communities and volunteering financial planning […]

By Linkenheimer LLP|2020-09-03T20:04:55+00:00July 11th, 2017|award, planning|0 Comments

Planning for the new Medicare taxes in 2013

As summer quickly passes and we head into the last half of 2013, it is a good time to evaluate your income and deductions for the year and begin working with your CPA on planning strategies to reduce your overall tax burden.

Specifically, upper income individuals should be aware of the additional Medicare Tax which applies to earned income (wages and self-employment income). Prior to this new tax provision beginning in 2013, any wages paid to you by your employer were subject to a 2.9% Medicare payroll tax, which was split equally by you and your employer (1.45% each). Beginning in 2013, wages above $200,000 for individual tax filers, or $250,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly, will be subject to an additional .9% Medicare tax.

For illustrative purposes, this would mean that if you and your spouse file a joint tax return and have combined wages of $350,000, you will end up paying an additional $900 in Medicare taxes. Employers are required to withhold this additional tax for employees with wages in excess of $200,000, and any underpaid or overpaid Medicare taxes will be adjusted for on your income tax return. Individuals with both wages and self-employment income aggregate their earned […]