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This week on Hull on Estates and Succession Planning, Ian and Suzana continue their discussion about rolling assets into Trusts and issues surrounding deferring tax on Capital Gains.

Listen to Episode 84 – Rolling Assets Into Trust
This week on Hull on Estate and Succession Planning, Ian and Suzana further last week’s discussion on trusts and tax planning wills by illustrating the benefits of rolling over assets and being conscious of tainted trusts.

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In this week’s episode of Hull on Estate and Succession Planning, Ian and Suzana talk about capital gains taxes and what you need to know about them relating to the family cottage.

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To carry on with the discussion of trustee/director conflicts of interest: the very stringent duties applying to trustees can clash with the equally stringent duties applying to directors of a corporation, when the trustee and director are one and the same person. Many corporations are speculative in nature. This is fine during a testator’s life, but the prudent investor rule, (as discussed in prior blogs and podcasts) may dictate that a speculative corporation is not the best investment for an estate.

Being a director of a corporation may require an entirely different skill set than a trustee, and may require specialized expertise that the trustee may not have. Since often a trustee becomes a director only as an afterthought, it may well be that the testator has not thought through the fact that the same person will need to fulfil both roles. If the executor also happens to be a shareholder of the corporation and keeps the estate assets invested in the corporation, there may be an obvious avenue for argument by the beneficiaries that the director used the estate assets improperly to enrich his interest in the corporation.