Running a business out of a structure that does not protect the Business or Personal Assets is one of the most common mistakes in business today.

A Pty Ltd Company structure offers very little protection, if any.

Should the business fail, all Personal Assets in the Directors names as well as all Business Assets in the company name are at risk.

A professionally designed business structure can overcome this problem.

If designed correctly, it will also provide the ability to legally reduce your income tax liability to a minimum.

I got involved in this type of work back in 2004, after I witnessed a friend lose everything due to his business failing.

You hear about it all the time.

Due to incorrect advise from advisers not qualified in this field, people start up business in a variety of structures.

It is not until it is too late that they find out that everything they own and have worked so hard for is at risk.

Everybody has insurance in place, and gladly pays the premium just in case the unforeseen happens.

The putting in place of a professionally designed business structure to run your business out of should also be considered a form of insurance.

The main difference being that there are no annual premiums to pay.

You pay for the designing and implementation of the structure at the outset only once.

Our structures are scrutanised by our specialty solicitors to insure that they will stand up in court should they be attacked, before being implemented.

Most people do not realize the many ways that they can lose what they have worked so hard to accumulate.

If you are a landlord, your tenant (alleging injury) could sue you for everything in your personal name (this could include your family home and business).

Should your business fail, your creditors could sue you (as director) for everything in your personal names (this could include your family home and investment property).

In 2007 changes were made to bankruptcy laws, allowing the trustee in bankruptcy to access your superannuation fund (section128B).

Should you be sued, and your insurance company accused you of some form of impropriety, you would then have two court cases on your hands.

One proving your innocence and the other fighting the insurance company.

Our aim is to make it financially prohibitive for anybody to sue our clients.

We structure our clients in such a way that should a mishap happen in one area of their lives; it will not totally destroy them.

These types of structures can only be put in place when there are no signs of there being a problem.

Should the unforeseen happen, and the creditors can prove that the business was trading whilst insolvent, the courts can overturn the structures.

The best time to put these structures in place is now, when you do not need it.

Wait until you do, and it will be too late.

As long as your business is viable, you should be talking to me.

martinfs@bigpond.com