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Speaker 1: I think that every black person should own a business,

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Speaker 1: even if they never wanted to be an entrepreneur, because

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Speaker 1: the tax code was set up for owners to win

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Speaker 1: and employees to pay.

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Speaker 3: Well on what's the option though, what's the option?

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Speaker 1: Option? The option is this? As you said, what what's

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Speaker 1: most important?

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Speaker 2: Those three?

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Speaker 1: I want to go to the fourth one, but well

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Speaker 1: we'll take it back to work it. We'll come back

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Speaker 1: to work at it. The tax code was set up

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Speaker 1: for owners to win and employees to pay, and so

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Speaker 1: why it's important for us to understand the tax code,

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Speaker 1: because there are things that you're paying for right now

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Speaker 1: that could absolutely be right offs. Okay, the cell phone

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Speaker 1: that you use, the laptop that you're on, the cell

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Speaker 1: phone bill, the whole office. And the reason why that's

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Speaker 1: important is because we will go to work every single

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Speaker 1: day for the direct deposit. They will tax you before

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Speaker 1: that direct deposit hits. And I'm sure some of y'all

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Speaker 1: in this audience don't counted how much they deducted from

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Speaker 1: your check. And then you take that same check and

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Speaker 1: you go and you spend it on goods and services

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Speaker 1: and your tax Again, when you start a business, then

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Speaker 1: there are things that you're spending right now that you

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Speaker 1: can operationalize and reduce your taxable income so that you

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Speaker 1: pay less taxes. Let me helped make that real for you.

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Speaker 1: There is a president that y'all used to have that

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Speaker 1: paid seven hundred and fifty dollars in taxes as an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: There is a corporation Amazon that paid zero taxes because

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Speaker 1: they took advantage of the tax bill. The second is

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Speaker 1: we have to understand the way that policy works. Now.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Jim Jones or somebody. No, actually,

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Speaker 1: I think it was Ryan Leslie that talked about the PPP. Right.

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Speaker 1: So while a lot of people were celebrating the stimulus checks,

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of entrepreneurs that were looking at

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Speaker 1: the stimulus bill. Right. So there were fourteen hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: in checks being cut, but there were twenty thousand to

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars in funds being allocated to black entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 1: There's funding that gets allocated to community development financial institutions.

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Speaker 1: And why it's important for entrepreneurs to understand policy because

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Speaker 1: there are some people in America that pulled up on

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Speaker 1: a policy, but they expect for black people to pull

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Speaker 1: up on a bootstrap, and that's important.

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Speaker 3: So hold on.

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Speaker 2: Understanding the tax code is more important than having a

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Speaker 2: good network.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to work at it, but you also

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Speaker 1: have to understand your why and the reason why. Business

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Speaker 1: ownership and ownership just in general is important because income

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Speaker 1: is taxed at a lower rate than assets, and your LLC,

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Speaker 1: your LOP, your C corporation, and yours corporation are assets.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to say that black people are overachievers, meaning

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Speaker 1: that the tax code allows for you to attempt to

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Speaker 1: make a sale for up to three years and still

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Speaker 1: write off ten to twenty five thousand dollars in write

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Speaker 1: offs every single year, which a lot of people do.

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Speaker 1: Your business fails, it gets classified as a hobby. You

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Speaker 1: can start another one. And now if you're making sixty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year in your job, writing off twenty

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars in your business, now you're paying less

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Speaker 1: taxes and you can put that money to work any

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Speaker 1: way you want, through the real estate, through the sock market,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. So it's important to understand how that works.

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Speaker 1: You're al and I want to bring it back full

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Speaker 1: circle because I don't think you're understanding the way the

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Speaker 1: policy works. The Homestaid Act allow for white people, white

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Speaker 1: men to own lane. Social Security allow for white people,

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Speaker 1: white men to retire comfortably. We have MG the mortgage

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Speaker 1: guy who sit up here talking Keyana right, Rishaana, who

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Speaker 1: is talking about real estate and getting loans right. Redlining

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Speaker 1: right allow for self people, white people to get government

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Speaker 1: back loans to buy home of homes while we couldn't.

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Speaker 1: Those are policies people pulling up by policy but telling

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Speaker 1: black people there's no venture capital, there's no bank loans,

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Speaker 1: and there's no grants. For your enterprises. So when we're

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Speaker 1: able to understand policy, we're able to unlock the resources

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Speaker 1: that our ancestors invested in building up this country and

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Speaker 1: make sure that that money comes full circle back to

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Speaker 1: us while still owning the business that has your name

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Speaker 1: on it. And we heard Ronnie talk about her two

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Speaker 1: kids in the front of the audience. Right, she could

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Speaker 1: own that LLC and put her children as members of

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Speaker 1: that LLC. So when she passes, it passes right along

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Speaker 1: to you. Burn the candle at both six we're talking

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Speaker 1: about siblings, checks, you talk, you turn on CNBC, they're

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Speaker 1: talking about six figures, right, How can I get the

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Speaker 1: government to pay me? How can I get the business

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Speaker 1: to pay me? And we're talking about fourteen hundred dollars?

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Speaker 1: Let me go get a bag.

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