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should you have an llc holding company also known as an umbrella company well smart entrepreneurs are always looking for ways to protect their wealth in their business assets and after studying the tax code many people have found a number of strategies that help business owners to maximize their wealth and a widely adopted strategy is to divide one large business into several smaller business entities all controlled and owned by one single holding company so in this video i want to talk all about how to create an llc holding company and why so we'll explore what a holding company is how it is financed how it is used we'll also review some pros and cons and look at some examples all throughout the way so i'm excited i hope you are too stay tuned hey there and welcome to our channel i'm sean with life accounting the accounting company that saves people from high taxes and low profits if you want to maximize your net worth and you enjoy videos like this make sure you give this video a like and you subscribe to our channel for more great content let's go ahead and dig in with today's topic starting with number one what is a holding company so simply put a holding company is a parent business entity also a holding company may be referred to as an umbrella company it's the same thing and you should know that even though we're focusing on a loc holding company today a corporation can also be a holding company or a parent company now the holding company does not conduct any standard business operations meaning it does not manufacture anything it does not sell any products or services it just holds stock hey sean look i can be a holding company too okay kind of like that but essentially a holding company simply holds the controlling stock or other interest in child or subsidiary companies here's a visual representation of a holding company now while a holding company does not conduct business operations on its own it can own other companies that may sell services may sell products or manufacture goods the holding company may also hold other assets such as real estate properties or real estate portfolios vehicles equipment or anything else that can be of value to the other operations tied to the holding company now it's important to note that a holding company may own 100 of a subsidiary or it can simply have enough interest that allows it to maintain control through voting rights which usually is anything more than 51 percent now having control gives the holding company the power to oversee the subsidiaries or child companies that they run so for example the management team of a llc holding company can elect or remove directors or managers and the management of a holding company can also make major policy decisions like deciding to merge or even dissolve a subsidiary however each child company has its own management who runs the day-to-day operations of that subsidiary so they make the decisions about the internal operations like who to hire who to fire and how to operate more effectively and efficiently so the people running the holding company do not participate in the operations of their subsidiaries hey sean look i can have multiple subsidiaries or child companies as well okay kind of like that but let's go to move on now and talk about how an llc holding company can be financed but really quick before i do i want to ask you do you currently have an llc or even an llc holding company tell us in the comments section below i'd like to know if i should continue to create these type of advanced videos that help out llc owners all right so how can an llc holding company be financed so the people who are running the holding company are responsible for deciding where to invest its money they have to constantly ask themselves questions such as should we buy more real estate or should we buy a manufacturing plant or what other assets would be valuable to our holding company but where exactly does this money come from well a holding company can usually raise money in three different ways first by selling equity or interest in itself so basically they will be recruiting other people who want to hold stock in their holding company or want to hold stock in any of their other subsidiaries secondly a holding company can simply borrow money from other investors or a bank which is pretty self-explanatory and lastly it can reinvest its own profits that it gets from their subsidiaries like their dividends their distributions rent payments or other payments from their child companies now raising money as an llc holding company tends to be a little bit easier because you have more members and you have more assets all right now let's move on and talk strategy so how can you use a holding company so first off a holding company can be used by any type of business regardless of the size or industry so small businesses or even single member entrepreneurs can start a holding company for example let's say that you want to buy a multi-family apartment as a real estate investment what you can do is form two llc's one llc would own the apartment building and the other llc will be the holding company then let's say that later on you want to expand your investment so you decide to raise some money by selling shares in your existing holding company and then with that money you go out and you buy a profitable e-commerce company that is already set up as an llc after making that type of acquisition you would still have one holding company with a new partner and together you guys would own two businesses one would be the apartment building investment and the other will be an e-commerce store now here's something really cool that you should know when you have a holding company with multiple assets that drive revenue and profitability then you can position your holding company for a major buyout like you could sell your holding company for millions of dollars to large investment firms or venture capitalists who love to do big deals in fact many public traded companies on the stock market are actually holding companies who constantly try to improve their revenues and increase the price per share of their stock interestingly enough many people who buy stock don't even realize that they're investing into a holding company and not the actual operating company for example you've probably heard of lowe's you know the home improvement store but lowe's also has several other subsidiaries including a popular hotel called the lowe's hotel and on top of their hotel they also have ownership in a diamond offshore drilling company where they mine diamonds which if i had to assume they're probably using their capabilities with the materials they can get from their lows home improvement business and then the construction intel they have from their hotel ventures to cross over into drilling with their diamond offshore company but anyway the bottom line here is that holding companies are everywhere and smaller holding companies have a great chance of being acquired by larger holding companies so at this point you should understand what a holding company is how to finance one how you could pote
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- Palmer Ottey, Staff Member
well i am honored tessa at stamford boy she sounds very smart she probably is she says um mark you set up my s corp okay thank you very much one of our team members and law firm associates i'm sure everybody tested so there's the tessa s corp now let's say what's tessa doing oh tess is doing consulting she's doing hair and nails she's doing drywall uh she's import exporting she just started an accounting firm she just yeah she could do all that those could be dbas they could be urls like a website she could set up trademarks does she have to set up an llc to have a subsidiary nope she doesn't have to no she might need to or want to for example let's say she's going to partner with me she's like mark let's start a restaurant in in san francisco i'm like all right so we start a restaurant well that's ordinary income i don't want to pay self-employment tax on it i already have one s corp so does tess so what are we going to set up we're going to set up an llc and my s corp is going to own part and her s corp's going to own part probably i'd own 60 and she'd own 40. but that i'm just throwing that out so if you're interested you let me know but no you these llcs are great for partnerships or she may say i want to set up this as a subsidiary because i want to sell it i have an exit strategy for that llc or it's got a lot of liability and i don't want to co-mingle it with the light the assets of the other so you can do that too tess but you do not have to have llcs oh no am i in trouble it's tasha kesha kesha kesha that's not my fault that was darren's fault because he said he said tess and i was like what it is kesha with a k is it you
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