Estate planning in Vaughan
Vaughan is a city of owner-operators, and a business the family cannot run and cannot sell is the single most expensive thing an estate can inherit.
What an estate in Vaughan is usually made of
The recurring Vaughan file is a private company: construction, trades, transport, food, often started by one person and now employing a dozen. The company is worth something only while somebody is running it, and there is frequently no agreement saying who that is.
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What probate would cost on a $2,000,000 estate here
Ontario charges estate administration tax at nothing on the first $50,000 and $15 on every $1,000, or part of $1,000, above it. Take $2,000,000, which in Vaughan is often a home and a private company holding, which is the harder half.
$29,250 is payable before the estate is distributed, not out of it. When most of an estate is tied up in one asset, and here it usually is, that is money the family has to find before anything can be shared out. Making sure it is there is most of what the planning does.
- The estate$2,000,000
- Less the first $50,000, which is not taxed$1,950,000
- Divided into thousands, rounding a part up1,950
- At $15 each$29,250
Where that usually starts in Vaughan
Asked in Vaughan
What happens to my company if I die tomorrow?
Whatever your shareholders' agreement says, and if there is not one, whatever the survivors can negotiate while grieving. The practical answer is a buy-sell agreement that says who buys, at what price, and insurance that funds it, so the money is there on the day rather than borrowed against a business that has just lost the person who ran it.
Where is a Vaughan estate probated?
In Newmarket. Vaughan is in York Region and York's Superior Court of Justice sits in Newmarket, so Vaughan, Markham and Richmond Hill estates are all filed there rather than anywhere closer.
Ehsan Khandaker is a licensed financial and estate planner, CLU and CHS. He is not a lawyer and does not draft documents. This page is general information about Ontario rules, not guidance about your own situation, and a will is drawn up by a lawyer.
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