Business Planning

If you’ve built a business over the years, chances are it may be your largest asset. Understanding estate taxes and planning carefully for the future can ensure that your closely held business doesn’t create a burden for your business partners and heirs.

Your business is among the greatest achievements of your life. MarsJewett can help you plan for its future.

A carefully drafted business continuation strategy can provide a clear plan and the necessary resources to transfer appropriate ownership interests to key employees, business partners, or heirs. For example, advanced planning can fix the value of your business, which may reduce taxes and administrative costs.

Business planning strategies can also be used to develop attractive retirement and employee benefit packages for key employees. Nonqualified retirement plans can play an important role in helping to attract and retain highly qualified executives, particularly in competitive industry situations.

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Why Tax Planning Matters

Check out the PDF below on Why Tax Planning Matters. Please bring a copy of your most recent tax return to your next review meeting, and we can take it from there.

Spring Cleaning for Finances

As the emergence of the spring weather reminds us to clear the clutter from the closets and spruce up the yard, our finances often need a spring cleaning, too. Perhaps no month is timelier for honing financial knowledge than April. Perched perfectly between the winter...

Key Financial Data 2022

If you are interested in the new numbers affecting taxes, retirement contributions, health savings, Medicare, and more, please read our download the PDF below to have on hand.

Why Tax Planning Matters

Check out the PDF below on Why Tax Planning Matters. Please bring a copy of your most recent tax return to your next review meeting, and we can take it from there.

Spring Cleaning for Finances

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Scott Jewett, CFP^®

CEO, Senior Financial Advisor

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“We get to go through life with our clients. I feel privileged to meet with them and hear about what is happening in their world and with their families. They share their dreams and fears with us, and we get to help them achieve those dreams and conquer those fears.”

Scott infuses everything in his life with care, dedication and a commitment to helping others. As a financial advisor, he serves his clients with wisdom, integrity and kindness, and he has a knack for making complex things simple. He is proud to lead a team of wonderful people and to have helped shape MarsJewett’s culture of service.

A Bellevue native, Scott graduated with honors from Pacific Christian College with dual degrees in Business Administration and Biblical Studies. After college, he spent the first seven years of his career at Boeing. During that time, he and his wife began helping members of their church who were struggling to manage their finances or facing financial crisis, and this helped spark his passion to become a financial advisor. In 1994, he attended a seminar Glenn (Mars) was teaching for the Boeing Management Association, and a year later, Glenn hired him. The rest, as they say, is history.

Scott feels that he truly found his calling as a financial advisor, as it combines his passion for helping people with his love of untangling the technical complexities of finance and investing. He actually gets excited when Congress changes the tax and finance laws, because it means he gets to dig into the research and figure out new planning strategies that will benefit our clients!

Scott is a devoted husband and father of three. Sports are a lifelong passion for him and his wife Kim, and when they’re not watching their own kids play, you’ll likely find them rooting for the Mariners, Seahawks or Huskies—he even proposed to Kim on the 50-yard line of Husky Stadium. Now that his kids are (mostly) out of the house, he has more time to work on his golf game… and he’s quick to say that it needs some work.

Scott is also very active in his community and his church, where he has served for over 25 years in financial ministry. He previously served on the boards of two non-profit organizations, and currently serves on the trust and investment committee at the school his kids graduated from.