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In this webinar Simon Baldwin aims to highlight the importance of protecting your business and he will show you how to keep your business in business. Looking at Debt - Business Loan Protection, Key Person - Profit Protection, Ownership - Share Protection and Family - Relevant Life Plan.
There is a link at the end of this deck to the associated blog and webinar recording.
How to
Protect your
business.
Business Protection
Simon BaldwinDirector of Simon Baldwin
Financial Planning LtdAssociate Partner Practice of St.
James’s Place Wealth ManagementThe Associate Partner Practice represents only St. James’s Wealth Management
Plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on The group’s wealth
management products and services, more details of which are set pout on the Group’s website www.sjp.co.uk/prodcuts. The St. James’s Place partnership and the titles partner and partner practice are marketing terms use to describe St.
James’s Place representatives
Today’s Objective
• To highlight the importance of protecting your business
• Show you how to keep your business in business
What is Business Protection?
• Debt - Business Loan ProtectionThe policy proceeds are used to help pay off any outstanding loans
the business may have.• Key Person - Profit Protection
The policy proceeds are paid directly to the business to be used to help replace a Key Person and cover the loss of profits that may occur. The policy proceeds could help the business to continue trading.• Ownership - Share Protection
On the death of a business owner the policy proceeds are paid to the remaining owners to buy the share of the business from the deceased's estate.• Family - Relevant Life Plan
A tax efficient Death in Service benefit for employees or Directors of a business. The policy proceeds are paid to the Trustees (employer) and the benefit is written under Trust for the life assureds’ beneficiaries.
The level and bases of taxation and reliefs from taxation can change at any time. The value of any tax relief depends upon individual circumstances
Debt - Business Loan Protection
• 57% of businesses have debt• Average amount is £344,000• 23% of this is credit card debt!• Directors loan
Source: Legal & General State of the nation’s SME report, March 2015
Key Person - Profit Protection
• Your business may have 1 person responsible for the vast majority of sales revenue
• What happens to the sales revenue if they cannot work due to illness or accident for months
• Or worse, if they die• How long will it take to replace the key
person?
Ownership - Share Protection
• Over 50% of business owners have not left instructions of what happens to their shares in their Will
• 16% of business owners had no idea what would happen to their shares & had never thought about it
• 20% acknowledged that their beneficiaries would become active in the business
• Source: Legal & General State of the nation’s SME report, March 2015
Family - Relevant Life Plan• Tax efficient life assurance plan• Allowable business expense*• Set up by the business for a director
or an employee• Benefits paid to the family of director
/ employee
The level and bases of taxation and reliefs from taxation can change at any time. The value of any tax relief depends upon individual circumstances
*Check with local inspector of taxes
Consider this..• Who would pay the business debt?• Who are the key people in your
business?• What would happen to your shares?• Do you have life assurance, is it tax
efficient?
The level and bases of taxation and reliefs from taxation can change at any time. The value of any tax relief depends upon individual circumstances
Consider this…• Would you rather leave a business asset of
business debt to your family?• If you were shown a way of maintaining
the sales revenue, for a small cost if this happened, would you do it?
• Do you want your family to inherit the shares in your business?
• Do you want to be able to provide for your family if you die?
If you don’t take precautions then you are
vulnerable
How to keep your business in business
• For all attendees of the webinar I’m offering a no obligation 1 hour review
• Just send me a email with your contact telephone number by close of business tomorrow
Questions
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