Deconstructing misconceptions about forming your own insurance company to optimize cash, mitigate taxes and build enterprise value
By Ken Huffman, CPA
President
Captive Nation
With continued economic uncertainty, companies of all sizes are looking toward captives as a way to manage high-severity risks and gain enhanced flexibility and greater control over their total cost of risk. And you don’t have to be a global behemoth to form a captive.
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Captive insurance can be one of the most effective ways for businesses to protect themselves, optimize cash, mitigate taxes and build enterprise value. However, captives often arouse suspicion among those who are not well-informed. That’s because there have been widely publicized cases of companies using captives as illegal tax shelters, among other abuses.
To separate fact from fiction, I will walk you through some of the most frequently heard objections to captives and explain why those objections are often short-sighted.
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