What it means to work with Valur
From our full-service, end-to-end process to our client-friendly pricing, there are myriad reasons to make us your go-to tax planners

How we stand out

Low cost, high value
Create the legal document, set up tax-advantaged accounts and transfer assets all at no cost.
Optimized strategy
Optimize your use of the accounts from managing distributions, intrafamily loans, asset swaps and much more (it's all included at no cost).
Fast and easy
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.
Full service
Access to best in class support (on-demand via email, calls and our platform) and administration services at a fraction of competitors.
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.
- Content & calculators to help you choose your strategyContent & 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 agreementGenerate & 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 accountsEstablish & 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 supportAsset 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 & accountingOngoing 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 payoutsDistribution 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 payoutsTax- 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 supportOn-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.
- ALL-IN FEES
- Up to $5 million of trust assetsDistribution 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 millionTax- 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 millionOn-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
Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
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Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
0.8% of assets
on average
Free setup, starting
at $5,000/year
1% of assets
on average
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.

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.



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.








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.

NO UPFRONT LEGAL COSTS
$0 for setup
- 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 $7,500 per year
- IRS registration & annual trust tax filings
- Ongoing trust administration & accounting
- On-demand customer support
PRICING TIERS (VALUR TRUSTEE)
- Up to $10 million of trust assetsDistribution 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 millionOn-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
NO UPFRONT LEGAL COSTS
$0 for setup
- 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 $2,500 or $7,500 per year
- IRS registration & annual trust tax filings
- Ongoing trust administration & accounting
- On-demand customer support
PRICING TIERS (VALUR AS TRUSTEE)
- Up to $10 million of assetsDistribution 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 millionOn-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 - Valur handles accounting onlyDistribution 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.$2,500/year
* We know what it means to be starting out, so our fees are reduced while your assets are illiquid
Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.
Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
0.8% of assets
on average
Free setup, starting
at $2,500/year
1% of assets
on average
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.

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.



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.



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.




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.


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.

TRADITIONAL ROLLING GRAT
$2,500 per trust year or $10,000 for 5 years of GRAT administration
- 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
- Generate and finalize up to 500 GRATs to take advantage of the Direct-Indexed GRAT strategy
- Unlimited consultations, ongoing administration, and customer support
Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.
Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
0.8% of assets
on average
Free setup, starting
at $2,500/year
1% of assets
on average
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.

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.



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.


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.



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



NON-VALUR TRUSTEE
$1,000 per year
- 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
$3,500 per year
Premium features. Best pricing in the business.
See how we stack up.
Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
Trust Companies
Valur
Banks
0.8% of assets
on average
Free setup, starting
at $1,000/year
1% of assets
on average
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.

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.



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.



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.


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.

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.



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.




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