A short YouTube conversation (Tom Wheelwright and Tim Hubbard, Dec 20, 2022) emphasizing the importance of claiming legal tax deductions. Tim gives a concrete example showing neglecting $1,000 of write-offs at a 40% tax rate effectively wastes $400; Tom prompts discussion about scale and incentives, mentions short-term rentals as an entry point to differences in tax benefits.
So just because you're not big doesn't mean you get the same benefits, which would take us to short term rentals first.
I got to say, I love the way that you explain everything, Tom, because it makes it just so much easier to understand something that's so complicated. And I realized a long time ago, luckily, that if I have $1000 of potential write offs, for example, and I just neglect to write those off, or I wasn't aware of some legal way that I could write those off, and my tax rate happened to be 40%, that's kind of just like me giving away $400, right, that I. That I'm not going to get back.
How big of a sale is big enough for you to go buy? Want to go shopping at a. At a store? How big a sale do you need?
I guess it depends on what I'm buying, right?
10%, 20%, 30%? Where 30% gets you interested? What if you got a. What if you can get a 40% government discount on everything you bought?
I'm sitting here in my studio and the government paid for 40% of the studio.