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We bought the French company out of the Paris bankruptcy courts and were able to write-off our entire investment as restructuring costs. A client of Green & Company had been the CEO and majority owner before the bankruptcy too.

The active investors in the US management company, which made the investment into the French company, all played useful roles in management. They each invested $50,000 in cash (check) and $75,000 of their own expenses over a three to five year schedule. Tax rates were higher back then and they all made money just on the tax benefits alone after a few years. This was all done after the passive activity loss rules were effective and we never had any questions or trouble from the IRS. We had a rock solid tax opinion too.

The French company had five leading (small-scale and factory-built) waste-to-energy projects in the US and close to 40 operating successfully in Europe. Unfortunately, we were too early in the US green waste-to-energy market; with media confusion/scrutiny and NIMBY, it was hard to grow that exciting division.

Plus, the French bankruptcy courts were rampant with fraud and they tried to cheat us American investors. We saved the company and their jobs and increased sales by well over 100%. But, our prestigious Wall Street investment banker - active investor - board members insisted on punting the company back to the courts, to deal with the fraud issues. At the end of the day, we all succeeded thanks to the active investor tax breaks.

Add in green energy dividends now, and you have a winning formula. Now is the time to roll out a green energy business, even with oil prices temporarily headed lower again.

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The below content has been on our site for years and we are updating it soon, as part of our GreenEnergyActiveInvestor.com initiative.

Using our strategy Green Active Investors, you can raise new money and your investors make money from day one with tax benefits

Many Startups are being cut-off by their venture capitalists and they need new sources of
money and help.

ActiveInvestors™ is the next generation way to finance startups.

Tax advantages are the key to making ActiveInvestors™ work well for both you and the investor.

Green & Company created ActiveInvestors™ in 1987 and used it successfully to save a company and make money for ActiveInvestors™ .

Get started now by ordering our services.

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Many Startups are being cut-off by their venture capitalists

As reported by the Wall Street Journal and many other publications in May, 2000, many dot.com startups are facing bankruptcy. Their venture capitalists are withholding additional rounds of finance as IPO market opportunities disappear.

Venture capitalists funded expensive startup business plans in a land grab game of who can be the biggest and best on the Internet first. The more money spent on advertising, systems, overhead and human resources the better, because the goal was winning your space. If you were successful in winning eyeballs, press and buzz, then an IPO could be arranged in that frothy market and the venture capitalist could be rewarded well. If a few startups crashed and burned, that was ok for them because as long as 1 in 5 or 10 made it, they would do very well for their venture capital efforts.

Well now the frothy market has disappeared and venture capitalists now figure the odds for success are much harder. The result is to pull the plug on many startups.

We believe there needs to be changes in how things are done going forward. Sorry to say, but we never believed in this land grab game for the big pay-off. Yes it worked gloriously for the last few years but we don't think it will work over the next few years.

We have operated an Internet based business in our space (Trader Tax market) for the past few years and operate at cash net income levels that any business would desire (well over 50%).

Our views on operations and efficiencies is not the focus of this page at this time. They are covered in our new "Green & Company ActiveInvestors™ Tax and Business Guide"©

ActiveInvestors™ is the next generation way to finance startups

ActiveInvestors™ is the next generation way to finance startups and to help startup entrepreneurs reach their promised land.

ActiveInvestors™ provide startups with fresh rounds of cash capital, additional or replacement human resources (from their own home offices with no new overhead for the startups), and reorganization techniques to avoid bankruptcy.

ActiveInvestors™ invest time, money and expenses into your business. On the upside the Investors receive good equity returns and on the downside they receive significant tax benefits. In many worst case scenarios, some ActiveInvestors™ are prevented from losing any cash investment and they only risk their time and effort.

Many proven professionals and executives in the Old World economy, law, accounting, advertising, promotion, sales and other have money and a great job but no means to execute their dreams. These ActiveInvestors have money and desire to join your team on a part-time basis. With our ActiveInvestor™ structure preventing them from losing money (tax benefits), they have nothing to loose and everything to gain. These ActiveInvestors™ can spend their nights and weekends working for your company for no salary from their own home office overheads. They provide you with a new round of cash equity and are at your beck and call for help.

Tax advantages are the key to making ActiveInvestors™ work well for both you and the investor.

The tax advantages is the most important component of this program and the element that we are most experienced in as a tax and accounting firm (made up of CPAs and tax attorneys).

ActiveInvestors™ are "active" not "passive" in your company's operations. Your company structure is changed to be a "flow through entity" like an LLC or S-Corp. ActiveInvestors™ then receive a K-1 for their share of your company's tax losses. ActiveInvestors™ have "tax basis" for their cash invested plus their home office and other expenses committed as an active participant.

Congress changed the US tax laws in 1986, closing the loopholes that allowed the earlier proliferation of "tax shelters." Congress created the new "passive loss" and "at risk" rules, which together took away the guts of tax shelters. Investors were no longer allowed to take losses when they were "passive" (real estate tax shelters, oil & gas deals) and when they were not at risk for the company's debt (movie tax shelters).

The tax strategies are somewhat complicated and in each case we customize them for each startups situation (healthy company, cash starved company, company facing bankruptcy, company in bankruptcy, company out of bankruptcy).
Many of our strategies are fully explained in our new "Green & Company ActiveInvestors™ Tax and Business Guide"©

Green & Company created ActiveInvestors™ in 1987 and used it successfully to save a company and make money for ActiveInvestors™

Green & Company created ActiveInvestors™ in 1987 as part of its acquisition of a large French industrial company (railcar manufacturing) that was going into bankruptcy. Green & Company clients all pooled their money and knowhow together in a holding company that was successful in acquiring the industrial company. We saved the company, management and most employee jobs. Our ActiveInvestors™ got all their cash investment back plus a good return on just tax advantages alone.

Services we offer
We will publish a new "Green & Company ActiveInvestors™ Tax and Business Guide"© soon.

We also offer our entire line of professional tax, accounting and legal services to consult you on ActiveInvestors™. We can provide you with the full tax structure details, materials to present potential ActiveInvestors™, tax opinions on the tax benefits and structure, advise you on how to proceed, execute the legal paperwork, change your company entity structure if need be, prepare your tax returns and K-1s for ActiveInvestors™, consult you on how to handle the tax accounting related to the ActiveInvestors™ cost basis for cash and non-reimbursed expenses, and all the other related needs.

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