Brian Boyd
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I'm writing it off.
It's income to them.
So it got a lot of attention.
And I didn't realize it was such a big deal to people.
But that's how tax lawyers, strategists and tax practitioners think about the tax code.
We don't think about it as punitive.
It's not.
It's just a set of rules.
And that's all we're doing.
We're just taking the rules and applying them.
And then, you know, the really good tax practitioners and strategists think about, OK, the rule says this, but it doesn't say I can't do this.
Yeah.
It's all about interpretation.
Like, well, if I do this, which the statute doesn't say I can do, but it doesn't explicitly say I can't do it.
how does the IRS look at that?
And so you start doing research, but yeah, that's how like strategists think about things.
And I do a lot of strategy for people.
I'm like, well, it says we can do this.
But what if we did this?
It doesn't say we can't do it.