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Speaker 2: So I put this in all my tax slides all
Speaker 2: the time because I think I want everyone to have
Speaker 2: this perspective and understand this, and so Warren Buffett. Warren
Speaker 2: Buffett stated I paid a lower tax rate than my
Speaker 2: secretary thanks to the many loopholes and deductions that benefit
Speaker 2: the wealthy. And so I love to include this, and
Speaker 2: I love to have start off with this conversation because
Speaker 2: the reality is that Warren Buffett is not boasting. He's
Speaker 2: not saying it's right. He actually thinks that it's wrong.
Speaker 2: But the reality is the reality. So this goes back
Speaker 2: to my conversation of earlier saying Okay, well, if you
Speaker 2: don't currently have a business or you're not currently investing,
Speaker 2: you need to invest. You have Warren Buffett, one of
Speaker 2: the richest men in the world, saying that his tax rate, right,
Speaker 2: so not saying the amount of taxes that he pays.
Speaker 2: His tax rate is lower than his secretary. So that
Speaker 2: tax rate just means that his rate is probably at
Speaker 2: twenty five percent and his secretary is probably at thirty
Speaker 2: five percent, right, And it's all about It's all about
Speaker 2: because of it's sorry, it's all because of what he's
Speaker 2: investing in and where his income is flowing in from.
Speaker 2: And so the government is always going to incentivize things
Speaker 2: that they want to pretty much happen. Right, So if
Speaker 2: they want more people to become landlords. They're going to
Speaker 2: incentivize real estate. That's why there's so many tax deductions
Speaker 2: and so many different perks when it comes to real estate.
Speaker 2: When it comes to taxes, it's because the government needs help.
Speaker 2: They want landlords. They want you to be a landlord
Speaker 2: because they cannot house everyone. When it comes to you know,
Speaker 2: food and energy and all those things, there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of different tax deductions surrounding them. And it's because that's
Speaker 2: what the IRS wants. The IRIS wants you, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: that's what the government wants. The government wants you to
Speaker 2: invest your money in the stock market long term, not
Speaker 2: short term. Right, So what do they do. They make
Speaker 2: the tax rates for long term investment lower than the
Speaker 2: tax rates for short term investing. Right, And so you
Speaker 2: all have to just it's really about mindset when I educate.
Speaker 2: When i'm educating you all, if you know, you want
Speaker 2: to go off and do your own taxes, that's fine,
Speaker 2: But when I'm educating, it's really about mindset. So that
Speaker 2: way you all can understand what's possible and you can
Speaker 2: understand pretty much the rules of the game. Okay, so
Speaker 2: I'll read this. You guys can feel free to take
Speaker 2: a screenshot of this. This is pretty much what I
Speaker 2: spoke to you all about already in terms of what
Speaker 2: tax planning is. But tax planning is the analysis and
Speaker 2: arrangement of a person's and business financial situation in order
Speaker 2: to reduce their tax liability. The tax plan ensures that
Speaker 2: all elements of the financial plan work together to pay
Speaker 2: the lowest tax in a legal and efficient manner. Through
Speaker 2: tax planning, individuals ensure they can attain maximum tax efficiency.
Speaker 2: Reducing tax liability increases the ability to take the money
Speaker 2: you would have paid to the irs and allow you
Speaker 2: to contribute it, contribute it to your dreams. Okay, So
Speaker 2: that in a nutshell is what tax plan it is.
Speaker 2: And a one liner, keep more of your money so
Speaker 2: you could do whatever it is that you want with it, right,
Speaker 2: and to make it simple. Now, I'm going to start
Speaker 2: talking about tax planning, and we're going to start off
Speaker 2: with bookkeeping. I used to be so lenient when it
Speaker 2: comes to bookkeeping, and I used to try to find
Speaker 2: a way around it to tell people, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: you don't need bookkeeping, maybe you could try to do
Speaker 2: it yourself. No, you guys need some sort of bookkeeping. Now,
Speaker 2: whether you decide to do the bookkeeping yourself. Everyone needs
Speaker 2: some sort of bookkeeping software. Some people choose to keep
Speaker 2: track of their books, and you know, let's say they
Speaker 2: sorry they made you to keep track of their books.
Speaker 2: Let's say it on Excel. Right. The issue with trying
Speaker 2: to maintain your books and money that's coming in and
Speaker 2: going out of your business. The issue with that is
Speaker 2: that when you do that, you have you pretty much
Speaker 2: have the opportunity to miss things, right. So if you're
Speaker 2: missing things, you may forget to include a transaction, you
Speaker 2: may include you know, some revenue or some expenses. So
Speaker 2: what you want to do is you want to make
Speaker 2: sure that you're able to kind of get ahead of that, right.
Speaker 2: And so I do recommend like some sort of software.
Speaker 2: So whether that's like quick Books, Sorry, some of my clients.
Speaker 2: I use quick Books within my company with my clients.
Speaker 2: But what's some other one WAVE A lot of not
Speaker 2: a lot of clients, but some clients do use WAVE.
Speaker 2: I don't care what you use, just use something, right,
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Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man a Venezuela and charged
Speaker 1: with filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are
Speaker 1: just some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of
Speaker 1: President Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United
Speaker 1: States Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal
Speaker 1: border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and
Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If
Speaker 1: you are here illegally, your next you will be fine.
Speaker 1: Nearly one thousand dollars a day. Imprisoned and deported, you
Speaker 1: will never return. But if you register using our CBP
Speaker 1: home app and leave now, you could be allowed to
Speaker 1: return legally. Do what's right, leave now. Under President Trump
Speaker 1: America's laws, border and families will be protected sponsored by
Speaker 1: the United States Department of Homeland.
Speaker 2: Security right off, if they decide to absolutely, so yes,
Speaker 2: so sorry, guys, you know my voice is going, so absolutely,
Speaker 2: if you guys sign up for quick books, if you
Speaker 2: guys decide to pay me, if you guys decide to
Speaker 2: pay another professional, all of those things are tax write offs, right,
Speaker 2: And that's the beauty. And I said this on stage.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, the beauty of being a
Speaker 2: business owner or an investor is that you get to
Speaker 2: make your money, pay your expenses, and then your tax
Speaker 2: on what's left. Versus when you are a W two employee,
Speaker 2: what happens is that you get your money, your tax,
Speaker 2: and then you have to try to live off what's left,
Speaker 2: you know. And so just looking at it that way
Speaker 2: is like you know, I tell clients all the time,
Speaker 2: it really is about what can we really what can
Speaker 2: we do to bring more of our personal expenses over
Speaker 2: to the business side. So now that business is now
Speaker 2: deducting those expenses versus you know, us trying to live
Speaker 2: off of let's say that W two income that we're
Speaker 2: bringing in. So I put bookkeeping first because bookkeeping, as
Speaker 2: I put here, is really the foundation. Okay, So it
Speaker 2: is the foundation of tax planning. I cannot help you
Speaker 2: save on taxes if I don't know how much your
Speaker 2: business is profiting. If I don't know what expenses you
Speaker 2: really have or what assets you really have already, it's
Speaker 2: pretty much impossible for me to help you. And so
Speaker 2: if you want help or you want to be able
Speaker 2: to take advantage of things, you have to have your
Speaker 2: foundation in order, okay. And bookkeeping is very important, especially
Speaker 2: for you know, if you're going for any loans or
Speaker 2: you don't know how many people every single year contact me,
Speaker 2: actually every single week, contact my office and they're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm going for a loan and asking
Speaker 2: me for a profit in law statement. And I can't
Speaker 2: give them my profit in law statement because I don't
Speaker 2: have any bookkeeping. Oh my god, can you guys do
Speaker 2: my bookkeeping? I need you to do my bookkeeping for
Speaker 2: the past two years, and I need it done in
Speaker 2: two days, we're like, do you want us to go
Speaker 2: through twenty four months? Wow? You know, and so because
Speaker 2: nothing is urgent until it's urgent, and I like to
Speaker 2: practice a lot, and most people look at me and
Speaker 2: they're like, Okay, well, you know, you're just like it's
Speaker 2: just taxes. But it's like, no, this is really the foundation.
Speaker 2: Like I really am like the powerhouse to a business
Speaker 2: from the financial perspective because all of these tools, all
Speaker 2: of these things, if you conduct your business and your
Speaker 2: incompliance and you have your bookkeeping done and you know
Speaker 2: you're able to take, you able to save on taxes
Speaker 2: and file your taxes on time, and all of those
Speaker 2: things contribute to a profitable business. Okay, so More wrote
Speaker 2: the story get your stuff Together. So let's just quickly
Speaker 2: talk about tax deductions. So with tax deductions within tax
Speaker 2: planning for the most part, sometimes we do have to
Speaker 2: bring up to clients tax deductions that they need to take,
Speaker 2: or they need to consider, or they need to shift
Speaker 2: from a business side I mean sorry, from their personal
Speaker 2: over to their business. So any consultants, mails, travels, gifts,
Speaker 2: entertainment service sorry, internet, internet services, computer or software, cell phone, education,
Speaker 2: medical magazine. So these are just some right. Of course,
Speaker 2: we have home office, we have vehicle, which we'll talk
Speaker 2: about a little later. There's so many different things. How
Speaker 2: I like to tell clients to think about tax deductions,
Speaker 2: and well, I want to define tax deductions because a
Speaker 2: lot of times people ask me what's like to define it?
Speaker 2: So I'll continue this thought, but it just popped in
Speaker 2: my head that I need to define this. So a
Speaker 2: lot of times what I tell clients is if you
Speaker 2: are spending money on this particular thing in order to
Speaker 2: complete that transaction, in order to get that money through
Speaker 2: the door, then ninety five percent of the time it
Speaker 2: is a tax deduction. Okay, So pretty much tax deduction
Speaker 2: really is just you capturing all of your expenses that
Speaker 2: you have put out in order to operate your business.
Speaker 2: So for the irs, in order for something to be
Speaker 2: considered as an expense, it has to be reasonable, and
Speaker 2: they had I'm sorry, not reasonable. Sorry, it has to
Speaker 2: be necessary and ordinary. And so what that means is necessary,
Speaker 2: meaning that you needed it in order to complete your business. Right,
Speaker 2: And then there's a necessary an ordinary ordinary meaning that
Speaker 2: is common. Right, So if it's something common in your
Speaker 2: industry and it's necessary, is considered a tax deduction,