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MetLife Structured Installment Sale

John Darer • Sep 25, 2019
MetLife structured sales

Structured Installment Sale Tax Deferral Exit Solutions 

 

What is a Structured Installment Sale ?

A structured installment sale is a more secure installment sale.  The structured installment sale  product will allow for business and real estate sales to be paid out in periodic payments, the obligation to pay for which will be transferred to MetLife Assignment Company,Inc., domiciled in Delaware. MetLife Assignment Company will,  in turn, purchase an annuity from Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company to fund the future periodic payment obligation. See the Met Life Structured Installment Sale Diagram below for the sequencing of the transaction.

Structured sales depend on compliance with IRC 453. Not all aspects of a real estate sale can be deferred using the installment method. For example depreciation recapture is something that does not qualify.


Read more about   
Structured Installment sales  on 4structures.com LLC's dedicated structured sale page.

 
Owners of Highly Appreciated Real Estate Can Benefit from a Structured Sale Tax Deferral Program
Owners of highly appreciated commercial or residential real estate located in New Jersey, California, Texas and Florida may be able to sell their properties and defer capital gains taxes into future years using this completely onshore structured installment sales program introduced by Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company. The initial rollout, via a pilot program through select brokers, including John Darer of 4structures.com LLC, was limited to properties sold in the NJ, CA, TX and FL, but the list has expanded to all states but New York.
It is where the property takes place that counts in the MetLife Structured Installment Sales program.

So if the owner moved to Connecticut or New York and sells property in NJ, the owner is eligible to use the MetLife solution. There is a minimum case size. subject to a $500,000 minimum case size. John Darer is available to work with real estate agents whose clients have highly appreciated, low basis real estate and business interests, property owners, buyers and legal and accounting professionals in throughout the USA where he holds licenses such as Texas, California. Colorado, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts.

 Owners with interest in a Professional Practice or Business Can Benefit from a Structured Installment Sale Tax Deferral Program
Whether you have an interest in a dental practice, a medical group, a law firm partnership or other business interest, your life's work can be concerted to an income stream that is not dependent on the financial viability of the practice or business after you leave.


A completely onshore Structured Installment Sale solution
Unlike some of the other alternatives, here both the assignee, MetLife Assignment Company, Inc. and the annuity issuer/guarantor of the assignee, Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company, are domiciled in the United States of America. There are other structured installment sales solutions that involve some aspect of the transaction being offshore to avoid double taxation. In order to do this, the structured installment sale periodic payments must be substantially equal and must be substantially equal and must begin by the 13th month. Payments can be stretched out as long as 40 years under MetLife's structured installment Sale program.

 

This product will allow for business and real estate sales to be paid out in periodic payments, which will be transferred to MetLife Assignment Company,Inc., domiciled in Delaware. MetLife Assignment Company will in turn purchase an annuity from Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company to fund the future obligation.

 

Eligibletransactions must be located in a state other than New York case by case exceptions) and include:

 

  • Real Estate Sales
  • Personal Property (e.g. a home)
  • Commercial Property (e.g. an office or apartment building, a retail store, farm lands, etc.)
  • Sale of a business or practice (i.e. dental or veterinary practice)

 

Met's Structured Installment Sales documents, product guidelines and marketing materials are available at

MetLife.com/StructuredSale .
 

Important Pricing Guidelines for MetLife funded structured installment sales

 

  • The Periodic Payments Must:
  • Begin Immediately
  • Be substantially equal
  • Payout in regularly scheduled intervals
  • Payout no less frequently than annually
  • No Lump Sums Permitted

 

No Lifetime payments


Last updated December 17, 2022



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