The Cabot Company

08/04/2026

Let me tell you a story about how money moves in America. Not the kind that shows up in your direct deposit. The other kind.

In 2022, a company called Vaccine Company, Inc. was quietly formed in Bethesda, Maryland. 21 employees. Generic name. Nine figures in backing from Pfizer Ventures and Lilly Ventures.

In 2023, Dr. Anthony Fauci joined its scientific advisory board — six months after leaving government. What he was paid for that role has never been disclosed. Not because he's hiding it particularly cleverly. Because the system was specifically designed to make sure you'd never find out.

In 2024, the Biden administration awarded the company $28 million of your tax dollars through ARPA-H. A former ARPA-H program manager later celebrated the deal publicly, saying the federal funding helped them "derisk their technology platform enough for this exit."

In May 2026, Eli Lilly — which had been an investor since day one — bought the company for $1.55 billion.

This isn't a conspiracy. It's an org chart. And the org chart has very convenient blind spots.

I broke down every act of this story — the patents, the investors, the disclosure gaps, and exactly why the public will never know who got paid — in my latest blog post. Link in comments. Read it and tell me what you think.

04/24/2026

American consumers paid an estimated $91 billion of the $166 billion in IEEPA tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court in February. They have zero legal standing to file for a refund.

Only the 330,000 Importers of Record can file through the CAPE portal that opened this week. Hedge funds that bought claim rights at 20–30 cents on the dollar last year will collect at 100.

The structural math of who paid versus who gets paid back is shown below..

04/24/2026

American consumers paid an estimated $91 billion of the $166 billion in IEEPA tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court in February. They have zero legal standing to file for a refund. Only the 330,000 Importers of Record can file through the CAPE portal that opened this week. Hedge funds that bought claim rights at 20-30 cents on the dollar last year will collect at 100. The structural math of who paid versus who gets paid back is shown in this image.

06/02/2025

📣 We’re back — with double the tax strategy, sarcasm, and offshore schemes.
Yes, it’s been a minute since Part 3 of The Write-Off Diaries. We could say we were busy innovating, but in the spirit of transparency: life happened, deadlines piled up, and the IRS didn’t stop calling.

So to make it up to you, we’re dropping Part 4 and Part 5 — together. Think of it as a tax strategy two-pack, minus the markup.

🧳 Part 4: Transfer Pricing — When Your Profits Take a Permanent Vacation
Ever wonder how multinationals like Apple and Amazon move billions to Ireland and call it strategy? This one breaks down how profits leave the U.S. and land somewhere warm, legal, and tax-free.

https://www.thecabotcompany.com/post/the-write-off-diaries-part-4

🧪 Part 5: R&D Tax Credits — When Trying Counts as Innovating
Did you launch a half-broken feature? Test a new product that went nowhere? If you documented the mess, congratulations — you might qualify for thousands in tax credits. We’re not kidding.

https://www.thecabotcompany.com/post/the-write-off-diaries-part-5

📖 Catch up, roll your eyes, and maybe learn something useful for your next board meeting:
https://www.thecabotcompany.com/blog

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Unpacking the messy middle of tax, business, and strategy—without fluff. Read Between the (Tax) Lines for truth you can actually use.

04/30/2025

🚨 NEW POST: The Beige Carpet of Corporate Tax Strategy 🚨

You buy a forklift.
You write it off.
You still look profitable.
You pay almost no taxes.

✨ Welcome to depreciation — the tax code’s favorite way to say “you’re broke” while holding a $10M asset.

In Part 2 of The Write-Off Diaries, we unravel how corporations legally wipe out taxable income using bonus depreciation, Section 179, and other alphabet soup deductions — all while smiling for their quarterly investor calls.

Spoiler: It’s less accounting and more financial sorcery.

👉 Read it here: https://www.thecabotcompany.com/blog/the-write-off-diaries-part-2

A deceptively dull concept with outsized tax power, depreciation lets corporations buy big-ticket assets and erase their tax bills—instantly, thanks to bonus depreciation and Section 179. This installment breaks down how companies write off millions in equipment, offset real income with fake losse...

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.

01/15/2025

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01/10/2025

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10/08/2024

Individual tax returns that filed extensions are due on October 15th. Contact us if you want the best in tax savings or maximizing your refund on your 2023 return!

03/08/2024

Raising kids is a joy, but we all know it can also be quite a financial challenge. ​Did you know that saving for their college education can actually offer you tax benefits? 🎓💰

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