04/20/2025
I’ve been told more than once that I seem strangely... unbothered by the political chaos around taxes. And honestly? They’re not wrong. But it’s not apathy. It’s perspective.
Growing my company for years inside this system as a tax professional and advisor with my client base consisting almost entirely of businesses, their owners, and their shareholders , I’ve realized something:
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The public tax debate — the one playing out on cable news and Twitter threads — is all performative.
Raising the corporate tax rate? Sounds great in a soundbite.
Means nothing if a company can report $0 in taxable income. Lowering the corporate tax rate? Sounds like a sellout. But in reality, it can actually help smaller businesses — the ones that are playing by the rules, don’t have offshore subsidiaries, and aren’t hiding profits behind deferred comp and depreciation tricks.
If we want real change, we have to stop arguing about the headline number and start learning how the game is actually played.
So I’m writing this series — not as a pundit, but as a technician.
Not to spark outrage, but to give people the tools to understand the board we’re all standing on. Because knowledge isn’t just power. In tax, it’s leverage.
This is a 9-part series that walks through how corporations legally avoid taxes — explained with dry humor, real-world examples, and the occasional eye roll.
I hope you’ll read it, share it, argue with it, or learn from it.
Discover how corporations legally avoid paying taxes by exploiting the gap between book income and taxable income. Part 1 of The Write-Off Diaries explains how the U.S. tax code rewards financial gymnastics — and what it means for everyone else.
