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Laster is the Private Client Services and Family Office Director of Ernst & Young. With more than 14 years of professional experience in tax services, he advises high-net-worth individuals and family businesses on asset management, wealth preservation and intergenerational succession planning.
Laster focuses in family business and holding structure planning, close company formation and articles of incorporation design, corporate income tax and VAT advisory, as well as tax incentive analysis and applications. He also advises individuals and family members on individual income tax, alternative minimum tax, controlled foreign corporation (CFC) regulations, offshore fund repatriation, real estate investment and transfers, estate and gift tax, and onshore/offshore trust and insurance tax. Through investment structuring and shareholding arrangements, he assists clients in achieving tax-efficient succession planning across generations.
Laster holds a Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Economics from National Chengchi University. Laster has passed both the Taiwan CPA and U.S. CPA examinations.
Laster draws on his experience serving family businesses and high-net-worth individuals to integrate asset planning with tax perspectives. He helps clients make forward-looking decisions in a changing environment and supports long-term family succession through effective structuring, facilitating family wealth to be preserved and transferred across generations.