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Tax-Free Wealth: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes, by Tom Wheelwright
I am proud to report that I paid $0.00 in taxes this year. Legally, of course.
Just to be clear, I am not saying that I had W-2 income withholding through a job and that I did not have to write an additional check to the IRS when I filed my taxes. No, what I am saying is that I did not pay one cent in U.S. federal income tax. (Maybe this recalls for you the scene in Parks & Recreation where Ron Swanson orders “all the bacon and eggs”. Writing that last sentence did for me).
So how was this possible? I credit this book for this massive savings.
Do What the Government Asks
This book was a mind shift for me in thinking about how to best leverage the tax code to my advantage as a real estate investor. It taught me that if I simply do what the government wants me to do with my money, then they are much less eager to tax me. At first read, I know that sounds like we somehow have to do the government´s bidding to get our tax benefits. But, what exactly do I mean by this?
The tax code is set up, call it rightly or wrongly, to punish the regular W-2 income worker who spends their income on consumable goods and other, for lack of a better word, “non-assets”. On the other hand, in preparing the tax rules, Congress used its taxing authority to incentivize us to take actions that Congress, whether it will admit it or not, knew private citizens were capable of doing better than the government could itself. In other words, if we spend our capital in the manner that Congress wants us to then we will be rewarded for that. The good news is that spending our capital as Congress hopes that we do is aligned with our goals as BRRRR investors.
The two big areas of investment where we are most incentivized from a tax perspective as entrepreneurs and investors? Investing in and creating businesses (job creation) and providing housing (real estate investment). This year I invested enough capital into my BRRRR real estate portfolio and to start and build new and existing businesses around those investments (LLCs for investing, etc.) that those “expenses” (in IRS terms), which we are all smart enough to recognize as actually being an investment and not an expense, completely offset my income when taken together with other deductions, credits and benefits that come from these two tax-friendly activities.
Without question, this book guided my actions and decisions with respect to how to use capital as a BRRRR investor and certainly will in years to come. As entrepreneurs and investors, we focus so much on growth and where our next dollar will come from. Don´t forget that, in many cases, that next dollar can more easily come from just a little bit of appropriate tax strategy. This book will get you there!
Get Good Advisors
There is simply just too much money at stake to be cheap here. Even if you are just starting out with real estate investing, getting the right tax strategy in place now can save you a ton of money and headaches down the road. Frankly, it is just harder to work backwards.
Definitely don’t do your own taxes. Hire experience. If you can afford not to, don’t hire anyone who doesn’t have a long list of real estate investors (BRRRR preferably) as other clients. Good advisors can be expensive, but the cost is usually nothing compared to the savings you can realize from working with someone who is knowledgeable and proficient.
Be Proactive
Tax strategy. Asset protection. These are things that you need to get a jump on if you are building wealth and an investment portfolio that you want you, your family and others to benefit from into the future. I get it. These topics don’t usually arouse a great amount of energy and action in people. That is a mistake. If you need a good push towards taking the advanced-planning steps that you know you should be doing now (even if you are just starting), the visualization and hard dollar numbers presented in this book showing the downside of failing to prepare will motivate you.
If you are planning to make a lot of money in the future or build real wealth, you will be kicking yourself down the line if you are negligent here.
If you could pull one tip from this book for the under $20 price tag it is likely to cost you, do you think it would be a good investment for your BRRRR portfolio? Of course. This book saved me a six-figure income tax bill this year alone!
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