Brian Boyd

If you go to college and you major in accounting or you go to a community college and you get a bookkeeping background, that kind of gives you an entree in, but it doesn't really get deep into taxes.

You have to end up going to law school or getting a master's in taxation, which there are programs out there.

I did one.

And

The sad thing is taxes touch everything in our life, from sales tax to property tax to income tax to use tax.

There's a tax for everything.

And it's crazy to think that there's a tax for everything.

And this country was created because we had a tax on tea.

Because we rebelled against it.

Right.

We rebelled against it.

And here we are taxing everything.

But people out there should just take 10, 15 minutes and just Google whatever you're looking for and try to get a better understanding of it.

Now, when they do come to somebody like me, it's typically because there's a complex issue or they're doing cross-border exchanges.

Something's going on.

But

At the end of the day, people need to understand that it's a rule book.

And if you can understand the rules and how they're interpreted, then you can play the game.

And I don't say play the game by trying to cheat on your taxes or anything.

I'm talking about taking legitimate IRS-approved deductions through strategies.