Tax avoidance

Taxes. They come in many forms. Some are hidden: corporate taxes are built into the cost of goods and services you buy; excise taxes are included into products like gasoline. 

Others are more visible like sales and property taxes. And then we come to the most visible and dreaded tax of all: income tax. When people complain about taxes they are usually talking about income taxes.

Avoiding income taxes should be easy considering the size of the tax code and the millions of loopholes available. And that is the problem. The tax code is so big that it is daunting so most people have their eyes roll back in their head when they should be facing the tax code head on.

Americans who read the news even poorly know large corporations use tax inversions to avoid massive amounts of taxes due the U.S. government legally. What most Americans don’t know is they can use the same strategies on a smaller scale to never pay state income tax again. My guess is fewer than ten accounting firms in the U.S. utilize these strategies to protect their clients from state taxes. Today I will show you how to use the tax inversion without the help of an accountant.

A tax inversion happens when a major corporation buys a smaller company in a low or lower tax country or municipality. The acquiring company then moves its headquarters to the acquired company’s country. We will not get into the minutia of corporate tax law as it is not the focus of this post. We will use techniques of large corporations where they are applicable to small businesses, landlords, and retired taxpayers living or working entirely within the U.S.