Based on publicly available information, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the subject of family wealth succession. The trust case of the Kwok Family of Sun Hung Kai Properties in Hong Kong, Ikea’s founders’ decades of corporate tax planning, an extraordinarily lengthy 238-page ruling on Italian Crozier family trusts and other relevant topics have been elaborated on. This book shows that tax transparency presents significant challenges as well as opportunities for family succession planning. Paying taxes is the passport to the security of wealth. Paying taxes, anti-money laundering and disembarkation shall become the new security concept of wealth management.

Yang Houlu is a senior international tax lawyer and expert in transnational legal structuring and is working in the Zurich office of Price Waterhouse Coopers.