Calculating efficiency over a period of time can identify opportunities to reorganize staffing, or add or remove employees based on the company's volume of business, and an individual employee's long-term productivity can factor into merit increases and bonuses.
While trusts avoid probate, they don't avoid taxes. A transfer from a revocable trust will be taxed the same way as a transfer made through a will. Someone who inherits money from a revocable trust receives it tax-free, but the estate might have to pay estate tax on everything that it contains before distributing it.
IHT Treatment of Chargeable Lifetime Transfers . When a gift or Transfer of value is made to a Trust that is considered by HMRC to be a Chargeable Lifetime Transfer inheritance tax may be payable IMMEDIATELY, depending on the cumulative value of previous Chargeable Lifetime Transfers made by the transferor during the last 7 years.