Why we are better than our competition

1
No Upfront Costs
Create the legal document, set up tax-advantaged accounts and transfer assets all at no cost.
2
Trust Optimization
Optimize your use of the accounts from managing distributions, intrafamily loans, asset swaps and much more (it's all included at no cost).
3
Time and Experience
Set up the trust and transfer the assets in 24 hours via our website. No more waiting months and trying to find documents in email chains.
4
Administration Support and Costs
Access to best in class support (on-demand via email, calls and our platform) and administration services at a fraction of competitors.
Talk to our expert tax strategists
Traditional tax planning companies file tax returns. We do that, too. But we also do a lot more!
Keep more of your
hard-earned gains
Talk to our team
BEST-IN-CLASS pricing and SERVICE

Valur Pricing

First things first: Legacy service providers charge prohibitive up-front fees for uncertain returns. We don't want you to pass up an opportunity because of the cost, so we offer all of this at no cost: Unlimited consultations with our expert team | Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement | Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts | Asset appraisal and transfer support.

NO UPFRONT LEGAL COSTS
Use our tools to identify the right strategy. We'll draft your legal documents, set up your accounts, and help you transfer your assets, all at no cost
  • Content & calculators to help you choose your strategy
    Content & calculators to help you choose your strategy

    Use our calculators and content to identify the right tax mitigation strategy for you. Test different assumptions, try different trust formats, review the short- and long-term results, and then get started.
  • Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement
    Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement

    After a simple onboarding process, we'll present you with a plain-language version of your trust so you know what you're getting. Then, when you're ready, we'll present a final version and help you get it notarized so it's fully legally binding (and so you get all of the tax benefits).
  • Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts
    Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts

    In order to hold your assets, your trust will need a variety of accounts, including custodial accounts to hold public stock, private equities, and the like; and more. We'll set those up for you and make sure they're ready when you need them.
  • Asset appraisal & transfer support
    Asset appraisal & transfer support

    To unlock all of the benefits of your charitable trust, you'll need an appraisal for each of the trust's assets, and you'll have to transfer the initial assets into the trust. We'll facilitate the necessary valuations and help you transfer your assets.
  • Ongoing trust administration & accounting
    Ongoing trust administration & accounting

    Accounting is key feature of charitable trusts. Some of the biggest tax benefits accrue only if you follow a relatively complex set of rules about asset ownership and annual distributions. We'll make sure you don't stumble over anything.
  • Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts
    Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts

    We'll work with you (and your financial advisor, if you choose to have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family's financial plans.
  • Tax- & trust-loss harvesting to increase total payouts
    Tax- and trust-loss harvesting to increase total payouts

    If you choose a NIMCRUT, we can help you increase your returns by an extra 50% over the life of your trust by making a few simple moves every year -- to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis according to trust rules. Let us know if you'd like to learn more.
  • On-demand customer support
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
LOW ONGOING MANTEINANCE COSTS
Work with us to design your trust's setup, trades, and distributions to optimize your returns
Starting at $5,000
per trust, per year
  • ALL-IN FEES
  • Up to $5 million of trust assets
    Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts

    We'll work with you (and your financial advisor, if you choose to have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family's financial plans.
    $5,000/year
  • $5 million to $10 million
    Tax- and trust-loss harvesting to increase total payouts

    If you choose a NIMCRUT, we can help you increase your returns by an extra 50% over the life of your trust by making a few simple moves every year -- to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis according to trust rules. Let us know if you'd like to learn more.
    $7,500/year
  • $10 million to $15 million
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $10,000/year
  • $15 million +
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $12,500/year
COMPARISON

Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

COST

0.8% of assets
on average

Free setup, starting
at $5,000/year

1% of assets
on average

TRUST CREATION AND SET UP AT NO COST
In the past, attorneys drafted trust agreements and charged clients by the hour. Our software generates trust agreements at no cost. Once the trust agreement has been drafted, we help you execute it and set up trust accounts. These features alone will save you $10,000 or more for each trust you create.
Accelerate, generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement      
Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding
Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement quickly

Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding.

Establish trust financial accounts and obtain
taxpayer identification number
Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them
Establish trust financial accounts and obtain tax payer identification number

Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them.

TRUST ADMINISTRATION & FILINGS
Historically, you would need to hire some combination of an accountant, an attorney, and a trust company to provide these services. We do them all.
Annual income tax returns, K1s and trust accounting
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Annual income tax returns, K1s and trust accounting

Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal (and in some cases state) tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance.

Gift tax returns
 When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report
Asset appraisal and transfer support
The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised in order to qualify for tax benefits. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets
Asset appraisal and transfer support

The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised in order to qualify for tax benefits. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets.

TAX OPTIMIZATION
Our software notifies users of tax-planning opportunities, models them and allows you to take advantage of those opportunities — all for no additional cost, without needing to hire an attorney. These strategies can increase ROI by 2x or more
Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts
We’ll work with you (and your financial advisor if you have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family’s financial plans
Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts

We’ll work with you (and your financial advisor if you have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family’s financial plans.

Tax-loss harvesting to increase total payouts
with a NIMCRUT, we can help you increase returns by an extra 50% over the life of the trust by making a few simple moves every year — to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis
Tax-loss harvesting to increase total payouts

We can help you increase returns for a NIMCRUT by an extra 50% over the life of the trust by making a few simple moves every year — to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis.

Project income tax consequences of future distributions
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Project income tax consequences of future distributions
Model estate tax consequences of gifts
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Make intra family loans
Through our platform, you can lend to the trust, borrow from the trust, track and automate interest and principal payments on intra family loans and assign, forgive, or refinance existing loans
SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE
Our services include free, on-demand consultations with attorneys and tax consultants on our staff. We also provide automated services that used to require attorney involvement, all through the click of a button.
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support
Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support

Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees.

Ongoing administration
Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint trustees, allow trustees to resign, name or change charitable beneficiaries, rename trusts, make technical amendments, move trust to a different state, monitor the trust’s investment performance in real time and monitor annual unitrust or annuity payments
Ongoing administration

Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint trustees, allow trustees to resign, name or change charitable beneficiaries, rename trusts, make technical amendments, move trust to a different state, monitor the trust’s investment performance in real time and monitor annual unitrust or annuity payments.

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

NO UPFRONT LEGAL COSTS

$0 for setup

Legacy service providers charge prohibitive up-front fees for uncertain returns. We don't want you to pass up an opportunity because of the up-front outlay, so we offer all of this at no cost:
  • Unlimited consultations with our expert team
  • Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement
  • Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts
  • Asset appraisal & transfer support
LOW ONGOING  MAINTENANCE COSTS

Starting at $3,500 per year

Once you've funded your trust, we step into the role of trust administrator, accountant, and in some cases, trustee. Here's what you get for your money:
  • IRS registration & annual trust tax filings
  • Ongoing trust administration & accounting
  • On-demand customer support
PRICING TIERS (VALUR TRUSTEE)
  • Up to $10 million of trust assets
    Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts

    We'll work with you (and your financial advisor, if you choose to have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family's financial plans.
    $7,500/year
  • $10 million to $15 million
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $10,000/year
  • $15 million +
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $12,500/year
* We know what it means to be starting out, so our fees are reduced while your assets are illiquid
COMPARISON

Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

COST

0.8% of assets
on average

Free setup, starting
at $3,500/year

1% of assets
on average

TRUST CREATION AND SET UP AT NO COST
In the past, attorneys drafted trust agreements and charged clients by the hour. Our software generates trust agreements at no cost. Once the trust agreement has been drafted, we help you execute it and set up trust accounts. These features alone will save you $10,000 or more for each trust you create.
Accelerate, generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement      
Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding
Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement quickly

Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding.

Establish trust financial accounts and obtain
taxpayer identification number
Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them
Establish trust financial accounts and obtain tax payer identification number

Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them.

TRUST ADMINISTRATION & FILINGS
Historically, you would need to hire some combination of an accountant, an attorney, and a trust company to provide these services. We do them all.
Annual income tax returns, K1s and trust accounting
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Annual income tax returns, K1s and trust accounting

A non-grantor trust is required to file federal (and in some cases state) income tax returns each year that it generates income. When a beneficiary receives a distribution, that beneficiary receives a K-1 from the trustee. We’ll generate those K-1’s, and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance.

Gift tax returns
 When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report
Gift tax returns

When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report.

Asset appraisal and transfer support
The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised in order to qualify for tax benefits. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets
Asset appraisal and transfer support

The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised in order to qualify for tax benefits. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets.

TAX OPTIMIZATION
Our software notifies users of tax-planning opportunities, models them and allows you to take advantage of those opportunities — all for no additional cost, without needing to hire an attorney. These strategies can increase ROI by 2x or more.
Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts
We’ll work with you (and your financial advisor if you have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family’s financial plans
Tax-loss harvesting to increase total payouts
with a NIMCRUT, we can help you increase returns by an extra 50% over the life of the trust by making a few simple moves every year — to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis
Project income tax consequences of future distributions
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Income tax consequences of future distributions projections
Model estate tax consequences of gifts
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Estate tax consequences of gifts modeling
Make intra family loans
Through our platform, you can lend to the trust, borrow from the trust, track and automate interest and principal payments on intra family loans and assign, forgive, or refinance existing loans
Loans

Through our platform, you can lend to the trust, borrow from the trust, track and automate interest and principal payments on loans, and assign, forgive, or refinance existing loans.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE
Our services include free, on-demand consultations with attorneys and tax consultants on our staff. We also provide automated services that used to require attorney involvement, all through the click of a button.
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support
Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support

Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees.

Ongoing administration
Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint trustees, allow trustees to resign, name or change charitable beneficiaries, rename trusts, make technical amendments, move trust to a different state, monitor the trust’s investment performance in real time and monitor annual unitrust or annuity payments
Ongoing administration

Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint fiduciaries, allow fiduciaries to resign, set fiduciary compensation, rename trusts, move trust to a different state, monitor investments, generate letters of wishes with guidance for fiduciaries re: investments and/or distributions and combine, divide, decant or amend trusts, among other things.

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

NO UPFRONT LEGAL COSTS

$0 for setup

Legacy service providers charge prohibitive up-front fees for uncertain returns. We don't want you to pass up an opportunity because of the up-front outlay, so we offer all of this at no cost:
  • Unlimited consultations with our expert team
  • Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement
  • Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts
  • Asset appraisal & transfer support
LOW ONGOING MAINTENANCE COSTS

Starting at $3,500 per year

Once you've funded your trust, we step into the role of trust administrator, accountant, and in some cases, trustee. Here's what you get for your money:
  • IRS registration & annual trust tax filings
  • Ongoing trust administration & accounting
  • On-demand customer support
PRICING TIERS (VALUR TRUSTEE)
  • Up to $10 million of trust assets
    Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts

    We'll work with you (and your financial advisor, if you choose to have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family's financial plans.
    $7,500/year
  • $10 million to $15 million
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $10,000/year
  • $15 million +
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $12,500/year
* We know what it means to be starting out, so our fees are reduced while your assets are illiquid
COMPARISON

Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

COST

0.8% of assets
on average

Free setup, starting
at $3,500/year

1% of assets
on average

TRUST CREATION AND SET UP AT NO COST
In the past, attorneys drafted trust agreements and charged clients by the hour. Our software generates trust agreements at no cost. Once the trust agreement has been drafted, we help you execute it and set up trust accounts. These features alone will save you $10,000 or more for each trust you create.
Accelerate, generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement      
Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding
Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement quickly

Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding.

Establish trust financial accounts and obtain
taxpayer identification number
Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them
Establish trust financial accounts and obtain tax payer identification number

Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them.

TRUST ADMINISTRATION & FILINGS
Historically, you would need to hire some combination of an accountant, an attorney, and a trust company to provide these services. We do them all.
Annual income tax returns, K1s and trust accounting
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Annual income tax returns and trust accounting

It may be necessary to file federal and in some cases state income tax returns each year. Valur also keeps detailed records of each trust’s income and expenses.

Gift tax returns
 When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report
Gift tax returns

When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report.

Asset appraisal and transfer support
The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised in order to qualify for tax benefits. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets
Asset appraisal and transfer support

The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised for gift tax purposes. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets.

TAX OPTIMIZATION
Our software notifies users of tax-planning opportunities, models them and allows you to take advantage of those opportunities — all for no additional cost, without needing to hire an attorney. These strategies can increase ROI by 2x or more.
Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts
We’ll work with you (and your financial advisor if you have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family’s financial plans
Combine, divide, decant or amend trusts at any time

You or your fiduciaries can use Valur to combine multiple trusts into a single trust for ease of administration, split an existing trust into two or more trusts, distribute the trust’s assets to a new trust with different terms, and amend certain technical provisions.

Tax-loss harvesting to increase total payouts
with a NIMCRUT, we can help you increase returns by an extra 50% over the life of the trust by making a few simple moves every year — to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis
Project income tax consequences of future distributions
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Make loans                                                    
Model estate tax consequences of gifts
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Estate tax consequences of gifts modeling & investment and distribution tracking
Make intra family loans
Through our platform, you can lend to the trust, borrow from the trust, track and automate interest and principal payments on intra family loans and assign, forgive, or refinance existing loans
Income-tax optimization

Through our platform, you can swap high-basis assets that you own personally with low-basis assets inside of the trust, reimburse the grantor for income tax liability, and convert a grantor trust into a non-grantor trust.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE
Our services include free, on-demand consultations with attorneys and tax consultants on our staff. We also provide automated services that used to require attorney involvement, all through the click of a button.
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support
Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support

Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees.

Ongoing administration
Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint trustees, allow trustees to resign, name or change charitable beneficiaries, rename trusts, make technical amendments, move trust to a different state, monitor the trust’s investment performance in real time and monitor annual unitrust or annuity payments
Ongoing administration

Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint fiduciaries, allow fiduciaries to resign, set fiduciaries compensation, rename trusts,, move trust to a different state, monitor the trust’s investment performance in real time, generate letters of wishes with guidance for fiduciaries re: investments and/or distributions and monitor annual unitrust or annuity payments.

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

NO UPFRONT LEGAL COSTS

$0 for setup

Legacy service providers charge prohibitive up-front fees for uncertain returns. We don't want you to pass up an opportunity because of the up-front outlay, so we offer all of this at no cost:
  • Unlimited consultations with our expert team
  • Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement
  • Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts
  • Asset appraisal & transfer support
LOW ONGOING MAINTENANCE COSTS

Starting at $5,000 per year

Once you've funded your trust, we step into the role of trust administrator, accountant, and in some cases, trustee. Here's what you get for your money:
  • IRS registration & annual trust tax filings
  • Ongoing trust administration & accounting
  • On-demand customer support
PRICING TIERS (VALUR TRUSTEE)
  • Up to $10 million of trust assets
    Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts

    We'll work with you (and your financial advisor, if you choose to have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family's financial plans.
    $7,500/year
  • $10 million to $15 million
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $10,000/year
  • $15 million +
    On-demand customer support:

    Self explanatory. At this level, we'll be on call at all hours to make sure your trust is running according to plan. Need help transferring assets into the trust? We're on it. Considering a major investment and want to know how it'll work inside the trust? Just ask.
    $12,500/year
* We know what it means to be a founder, so ask us about our early-stage fee arrangements
TRADITIONAL ROLLING GRAT

$2,500 per trust year or $10,000 for 5 years of GRAT administration

Our low-cost, comprehensive plan includes the following:
  • Unlimited consultations with our expert team
  • Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreements with the Rolling GRAT strategy
  • Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts
  • Ongoing trust administration & accounting, with on-demand customer support
DIRECT-INDEXED GRAT

Double after-tax returns with Direct Indexing for $25,000 per year

With our innovative Direct-Indexed GRAT, clients looking to optimize the distribution of significant assets can pass on up to 110% more.  
  • Generate and finalize up to 500 GRATs to take advantage of the Direct-Indexed GRAT strategy
  • Unlimited consultations, ongoing administration, and customer support
COMPARISON

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See how we stack up.

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

COST

0.8% of assets
on average

Free setup, starting
at $2,500/year

1% of assets
on average

TRUST CREATION AND SET UP AT NO COST
In the past, attorneys drafted trust agreements and charged clients by the hour. Our software generates trust agreements at no cost. Once the trust agreement has been drafted, we help you execute it and set up trust accounts. These features alone will save you $10,000 or more for each trust you create.
Accelerate, generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement      
Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding
Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement quickly

Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding.

Establish trust financial accounts and obtain
taxpayer identification number
Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them
Establish trust financial accounts and obtain tax payer identification number

Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them.

TRUST ADMINISTRATION & FILINGS
Historically, you would need to hire some combination of an accountant, an attorney, and a trust company to provide these services. We do them all.
Annual income tax returns, K1s and trust accounting
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Gift tax returns
 When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report
Gift tax returns

When you fund a GRAT, you should report the gift on a gift tax return even if the GRAT is technically “zeroed out.” Valur generates a gift tax return so that you can properly report the GRAT and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report.

Asset appraisal and transfer support
The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised in order to qualify for tax benefits. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets
Asset appraisal and transfer support

The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised for gift tax purposes. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets.

TAX OPTIMIZATION
Our software notifies users of tax-planning opportunities, models them and allows you to take advantage of those opportunities — all for no additional cost, without needing to hire an attorney. These strategies can increase ROI by 2x or more.
Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts
We’ll work with you (and your financial advisor if you have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family’s financial plans
Use of swaps to generate higher after-tax returns

Valur will notify you when assets reach levels where swapping them out will likely increase after-tax returns. Then, with your consent, the asset will be swapped for cash or a promissory note. Whenever an annuity payment is due, a portion of the outstanding note will be distributed to you. When the GRAT terminates, the remaining principal will be distributed to the remainder beneficiaries.

Tax-loss harvesting to increase total payouts
with a NIMCRUT, we can help you increase returns by an extra 50% over the life of the trust by making a few simple moves every year — to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis
Project income tax consequences of future distributions
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Tracking and automatization of interest payments             
Model estate tax consequences of gifts
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Estate tax consequences of gifts modeling
Make intra family loans
Through our platform, you can lend to the trust, borrow from the trust, track and automate interest and principal payments on intra family loans and assign, forgive, or refinance existing loans
Investment and distribution tracking

Use our platform to monitor a trust’s investment performance in real time and track annual annuity payments.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE
Our services include free, on-demand consultations with attorneys and tax consultants on our staff. We also provide automated services that used to require attorney involvement, all through the click of a button.
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support
Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support

Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees.

Ongoing administration
Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint trustees, allow trustees to resign, name or change charitable beneficiaries, rename trusts, make technical amendments, move trust to a different state, monitor the trust’s investment performance in real time and monitor annual unitrust or annuity payments
Ongoing administration

remove and appoint fiduciaries, allow fiduciaries to resign, rename a GRAT and move a GRAT to a different state.

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

NON-VALUR TRUSTEE

$1,000 per year

Our low-cost, comprehensive plan includes the following:
  • Unlimited consultations with our expert team
  • Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreements
  • Establish & maintain trust's financial accounts
  • Ongoing trust administration & accounting, with on-demand customer support
VALUR TRUSTEE

$2,500 per year (New York trustee) | $3,500 per year (South Dakota trustee)

Valur can serve as Trustee of your ILIT. If you name Valur as Trustee, the trust can be set up in New York or South Dakota. If you choose South Dakota, the trust will benefit from South Dakota's favorable trust laws, including zero state tax.
COMPARISON

Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

Trust Companies

Valur

Banks

COST

0.8% of assets
on average

Free setup, starting
at $1,000/year

1% of assets
on average

TRUST CREATION AND SET UP AT NO COST
In the past, attorneys drafted trust agreements and charged clients by the hour. Our software generates trust agreements at no cost. Once the trust agreement has been drafted, we help you execute it and set up trust accounts. These features alone will save you $10,000 or more for each trust you create.
Accelerate, generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement      
Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding
Generate & finalize your legally valid trust agreement quickly

Within 24 hours of you completing our onboarding process, we’ll send you an attorney-vetted, legally valid trust agreement and a summary of the trust’s terms. Then, we’ll help you get the trust agreement signed and notarized so that it’s legally binding.

Establish trust financial accounts and obtain
taxpayer identification number
Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them
Establish trust financial accounts and obtain tax payer identification number

Your trust will need a brokerage account and potentially other types of accounts. We’ll help open those accounts and make sure they’re ready when you need them.

TRUST ADMINISTRATION & FILINGS
Historically, you would need to hire some combination of an accountant, an attorney, and a trust company to provide these services. We do them all.
Annual income tax returns, K1s and trust accounting
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Annual income tax returns and trust accounting

It may be necessary to file federal and sometimes state income taIt may be necessary to file income tax returns each year that the trust generates income. Valur does this and also keeps detailed records of each trust’s income and expenses.x returns each year that the trust generates income. Valur does this and also keeps detailed records of each trust’s income and expenses.

Gift tax returns
 When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report
Gift tax returns

When you gift assets to a trust, we will generate a gift tax return so that you can properly report the gift and avoid future tax issues that might result from a failure to report.

Asset appraisal and transfer support
The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised in order to qualify for tax benefits. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets
Asset appraisal and transfer support

The assets that you transfer to the trust may need to be appraised for gift tax purposes. We’ll facilitate the necessary valuations. We’ll also help you transfer assets.

TAX OPTIMIZATION
Our software notifies users of tax-planning opportunities, models them and allows you to take advantage of those opportunities — all for no additional cost, without needing to hire an attorney. These strategies can increase ROI by 2x or more
Distribution support to optimize your annual payouts
We’ll work with you (and your financial advisor if you have one) to design a distribution schedule that fits neatly into your family’s financial plans
Combine, divide, decant or amend trusts at any time

You or your fiduciaries can use Valur to combine multiple trusts into a single trust for ease of administration, split an existing trust into two or more trusts, distribute the trust’s assets to a new trust with different terms, and amend certain technical provisions.

Tax-loss harvesting to increase total payouts
with a NIMCRUT, we can help you increase returns by an extra 50% over the life of the trust by making a few simple moves every year — to offset capital gains with any losses, and to reset your cost basis
Automate annual gifts and Crummey letters

You can set up recurring annual gifts to the trust so that the trust can take advantage of the gift tax annual exclusion. In order for the trust to qualify for the exclusion, the IRS requires that you send notices to the adult beneficiaries and the parents of minor beneficiaries each time a gift is made to the trust. Valur handles those letters for you.

Project income tax consequences of future distributions
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Tracking and automatization of insurance premium payment due dates 
Model estate tax consequences of gifts
Charitable trusts are required to file annual federal and sometimes state tax returns. When you receive a distribution, the trust will issue a K-1 to you. We’ll generate those K-1’s and we’ll track the trust’s income and expenses and keep the trust in compliance
Investment and distribution tracking and income tax-optimization
Make intra family loans
Through our platform, you can lend to the trust, borrow from the trust, track and automate interest and principal payments on intra family loans and assign, forgive, or refinance existing loans
Loans

Through our platform, you can lend to the trust, borrow from the trust, track and automate interest and principal payments on loans, and assign, forgive, or refinance existing loans.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE
Our services include free, on-demand consultations with attorneys and tax consultants on our staff. We also provide automated services that used to require attorney involvement, all through the click of a button.
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support
Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees
Unlimited consultations with our expert team and on-demand customer support

Talk to us any time, with no hourly fees.

Ongoing administration
Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint trustees, allow trustees to resign, name or change charitable beneficiaries, rename trusts, make technical amendments, move trust to a different state, monitor the trust’s investment performance in real time and monitor annual unitrust or annuity payments
Ongoing administration

Through our platform, you can: remove and appoint fiduciaries, allow fiduciaries to resign, set fiduciary compensation, rename trusts, move trust to a different state and generate letters of wishes with guidance for fiduciaries re: investments and/or distributions.

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

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COMPARISON

Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.

JP Morgan

Charles Schwab

Valur

Northern Trust

Wilmington Trust

COST

Starting at 0.55%
($15k minimum)

Starting at 0.50%
($5k minimum)

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+ $1500

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($20k minimum)

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($8k minimum)

PLANNING

ROI calculators

Guides & educational content

PAPERWORK

Trust agreement

Trust account setup & maintenance

Annual trust tax filings & registration

Trust administration & accounting

Asset appraisal & transfer support

OPTIMIZATION

Distribution optimization

Tax-loss harvesting

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

ACCOUNTS

Clones

Up to 20 clones per month

Categories

Business, Technology

User Limit

1 User

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Lottie Animation

3 months

Design Interactions

3 months

DESIGN INTERACTIONS

Clones

Categories

-

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