You work hard for your money.
More importantly, you bring a unique expertise, and most likely a very valuable body of experience, to whatever your business is.
The IRS will never admit this in one of their many bulletins or procedure updates, but they are in the business of confusing the taxpayer.
They are legally ripping people off.
Now, I’ve told you before, very recently in fact, that money is a form of energy.
We hardly even bother getting cash anymore. Most transactions are a transfer, credit or debit card purchase.
I haven’t touched a piece of paper currency in several days!
What’s my point? Money is a form of energy.
When the IRS keeps more of your money than they should have, and there was a way for you to legally reduce your burden to them but you don’t know about it?
I want to get you that money back.
That’s YOUR energy.
After a little bit of thought I’ve concluded that the IRS, and their puppet-masters the US Congress are literally stealing your energy!
Sit with that for a second.
Then tell me…
…how does that feel?
Does it make you mad?
It’s okay – it should!
Somebody I respect immensely asked me recently what my mission in life is.
You see, I had started making a reference to it, but he wanted to hear me just say it.
What is your mission in life?
And I said (because I’ve said it before I didn’t have to think about it at all) to save as many people as possible as much unnecessary excess tax as possible.
He asked me how that makes me feel.
I knew that one, too. Disillusioned.
“What do you mean, Eric?”
Like confused and frustrated our government created such a complicated system that literally steals billions of excess dollars from its citizens.
Yeah, I said it. Steals.
The self-employment tax is an abomination.
So are the 3-year limits on tax refunds.
Smacking us upside the head like a revivalist preacher wielding a well-worn Bible.
Whap!
The people this hurts the worst are the people the politicians running for something always claim to be a friend of.
Mr. and Mrs. Middle America. The small-business-man or -woman.
Picture if you will: breaking out in your first year in business with enough success to actually eat and pay rent off of the money you made.
Maybe you know you’re supposed to set aside some money for tax. Maybe you even know because you have a smart friend that you should pay in 4 times a year.
But so many don’t.
Just because, they don’t. They’re busy doing the money-making things.
Then, tax season occurs.
They run their numbers through whatever tax software they found, and WHAP!
They’re paying over a quarter of their net income in tax.
Yes, that’s right. Over a quarter of it, in tax.
If that person didn’t save or pay as he or she went, depression, even fear, sets in.
Oh shit, now what?
People wiping out their savings, or even setting up an IRS payment plan with a set-up fee and interest because they just didn’t know.
Are you a bad person because you don’t know?
Of course, you’re not.
This, my friends, is why I’m always ready to arm-wrestle with the IRS.
This is why I’m disillusioned, and also why I do what I do.
I’m in the business of keeping good money in the hands of the good people to whom it belongs.
If you want to give some of your money away, it should be your choice.
Both who deserves it, and why.
I would much rather help small children with cancer or the homeless than fund the next hyper-inflated war plane.
Wouldn’t you?