Advising Clients since 1980
Personal Taxes
Unlike business taxes, refer to the preparation of tax returns for a variety of income, capital gains, gifting, distribution and estate issues that are filed by an individual.
Shoreline’s personal tax planning is directed toward helping our individual clients arrange their affairs in a way that will minimize their own income tax burdens and the transfer tax (the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax) burdens on their families.
Income Tax
Our advisors have considerable experience in utilizing the methods that are available for deferring and reducing federal and state income taxes and in the development of tax-efficient structures for particular investments. These include various deferred compensation arrangements, the utilization of foreign and out-of-state trusts, the use of derivatives and other cutting-edge investment strategies and the use of tax-advantaged charitable giving techniques.
Transfer Taxes
The three federal transfer taxes — the estate or death tax, the gift tax and the generation- skipping transfer tax — are now imposed at a maximum rate of 45%. The substantial size of these taxes motivates many of our individual clients to take steps during their lifetimes to reduce the impact of these taxes on their families.
Reducing these taxes generally involves structuring and implementing one or more of a variety of lifetime transfers. These transfers range from the simple use of the annual gift tax exclusion to more complicated transfers involving the creation of family trusts and the fractionalization of investment and business assets.
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We are a network of independent professionals with over 150 years of combined experience in wealth management and advice. Members of this network can be used individually or collectively for a single program or a series of seminars or workshops for your company or organization.
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Charles M. Bloom, Registered Principal offers securities and advisory services through Centaurus Financial, Inc. - Member FINRA and SIPC - 775 Avenida Pequena, CA, 93111 (mailing address: 3905 State Street Suite 7173, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105) - CA Life Insurance License No. 0A52786 - Centaurus Financial, Inc. and Shoreline Wealth & Investment Management are not affiliated companies.
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