"10-8" Tax Saver Strategy

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Mental Leveraging

What's your best investment? Yourself. You can't over invest in being the best. As you increase your skills, you increase your capabilities and capacity.

Financial Leveraging

Summary: Combine the unique tax advantages of life insurance with tax deductions from borrowing to invest to

  • enhance investment returns, or
  • reduce insurance costs

Your Profile

  • active investor
  • comfortable with leveraging (borrowing to invest)
  • prefer guaranteed spread between your loan rate and the return on your investment
  • high tax bracket now and in the future

Mechanics

This strategy lets you borrow from yourself. Your collateral can grow at 8% compound, tax=deferred. When your retire the loan, the collateral becomes available to you for other purposes,

Would you like an investment which credits 8% compound tax-deferred growth? This is possible using the tax advantages of universal life insurance. To credit you 8%, the insurer lends money at 10% and keeps the 2% spread. You are the borrower.

But insurance isn't free. However, borrowing to invest makes the loan interest tax deductible. The lender requires life insurance as collateral, which makes a portion of the premiums tax deductible (Net Cost of Pure Insurance (NCPI)). These tax savings offset - and often exceed - the insurance charges. This can be hard to believe. An example, may help.

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