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Audit Alert: Why Business Owners Shouldn’t Be Spooked by Captive Insurance

Now that tax season is over, hand-wringing season has begun as many business owners wait and worry about whether an audit may be in their future.

For businesses that have utilized a form of self-insurance known as captive insurance, there might be added nerves, especially with some commentators making misleading, blanket statements that captives are essentially nothing more than abusive tax shelters perpetrated only by bad actors.

The truth is captive insurance has been a tried, true and perfectly legal form of self-insurance for

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