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Speaker 4: There are advantages of being a business owner, and that's

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Speaker 4: something that we want to encourage. Entrepreneurship for a lot

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Speaker 4: of different reasons, not just to take money of your taxes,

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Speaker 4: but it's one of the perks that comes with being

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Speaker 4: a business owner because even if you look at it

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Speaker 4: from a corporate standpoint, like large corporations, the corporate tax

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Speaker 4: rate is twenty one percent, right, that's but the highest

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Speaker 4: federal tax rate for individuals is thirty seven percent. So

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Speaker 4: if you're a wealthy business like Amazon, or if you're

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Speaker 4: Now you're working your way down from there, whereas the

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Speaker 4: federal tax rate. The highest you can pay is thirty

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Speaker 4: seven percent. You have to work your way down from there.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna take down a micro level, and you know,

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Speaker 4: talk about small businesses because you know that's the majority

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Speaker 4: of businesses in America and in the world of small businesses.

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Speaker 4: Right Amazon, We talk about Amazon and Netflix, but that's

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Speaker 4: So as a small business owner, I'm going to speak

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Speaker 4: have benefits of being a business owner because you can

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Speaker 4: deduct a lot of things. Right, So when we talk

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Speaker 4: that nature, it's the same thing with a small business

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Speaker 4: advantages that entrepreneurs and business owners have as far as

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Speaker 3: Well, first, I always tell people, because do you get

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Speaker 3: There's a ton of things that you can write off, right,

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Speaker 3: So those things are very important when you are a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yeah, exactly, And that's something that people have

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Speaker 4: as taxes, I don't know I forgot exactly how you

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Speaker 4: were people were regular jobs pay taxes first. Business owners

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Speaker 4: pay taxes last. Right, So you can make one hundred

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Speaker 4: Now it's important to be responsible with that because the

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of discipline.

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Speaker 3: I try to and a lot of systems for my clients,

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Speaker 3: one being quarterly taxes, getting me in there doing your

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Speaker 3: bookkeeping quarterly, whether it's me or you just you know,

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Speaker 3: so I do. That is important and I'm glad that

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Speaker 3: Once at once at the end of the year. You're

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Speaker 4: You don't have it too pay Okay, So before.

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Speaker 2: We go any further, because you said a few things

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Speaker 4: So everybody's not a business own, right, so most people

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Speaker 4: I'm a business owner. Enjoy you're a school teacher.

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Speaker 2: So I'm an educator, and taxes are taken out, and

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Speaker 3: The tax code has shifted to be in favor of

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Speaker 3: They also did was they raised standard deduction and got

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Speaker 3: And they'll say you have your property taxes, right, and

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Speaker 5: So now it's just a.

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Speaker 3: Now you're able to write off a one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: Anything, somebody can do what they don't own a home.

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Speaker 4: It's just the way the tax law is set up.

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Speaker 3: And one thing that I stress now more than ever

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Speaker 3: And so now with Trump, if you're going to purchase

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