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Brandon Brittingham

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Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

So essentially, think about it like this.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

If you're a W-2 employee and let's just say your tax liability was $50,000, just giving this to you as an example.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

and you bought a short-term rental property, and using his example of being able to use that loophole to get a cost segregation depreciation, and check me on the math if I'm wrong, because I'm doing this on the fly.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

Let's just say that you bought a half a million dollar property, and you did a cost seg.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

From our buddy Jeff's math, it's usually about 25% of sales price.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

Would you say that's fair?

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

Yeah, that's fair.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

Yeah.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

So 25% of sales price, we buy a half a million dollar property, right?

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

So we're at a hundred plus thousand in some change, right?

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

That if you're not, if you don't understand how this works, what he just gave you the game on is with a depreciation and doing a cost like in the first year, you can actually take that depreciation and take that as a paper loss and

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

on your taxes.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

And that is freaking one of the biggest hacks in the world for you to get wealthy.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

So let's just say that you had to pay that $50,000 in taxes anyway, but instead of paying it to the IRS, you bought a property, right?

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

And not knowing your tax picture, let's say the depreciation wiped out your federal tax liability.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

but you still paid the 50 to get the house.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

Well, where would you rather put that 50 to the IRS or in an asset that you control that has all the benefits that he just said?

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

And what's so crazy to me is there's so many people who don't understand this.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

And to Brian's point, this is actually not difficult.

Wake Up to Wealth
Maximize Wealth: Inside Tips from Tax Attorney Brian Boyd

This is in the tax code.