Aug 18, 2023
How to Achieve Financial Security
Control Taxes, Assets, & Income
Wealth for Life - BRT S04 EP32 (195) 8-13-2023
What We Learned This Week
· Financial Security is about control, but how do you gain control?
· People face 3 Risks – Market, Tax, Capital
· Stock Market is volatile, and cannot control if it goes down, lose $ and time waiting for a recovery
· Taxes are one of the biggest expenses during your earning years, and will not go down if you are a high income earner
· Control 3 Things: Taxes, Assets & Income
· Invest in the right kinds of Assets that offer tax write offs and income streams – real estate, businesses
· Taxes are guaranteed to drain wealth. If you can pay a 20% tax rate versus 40% you will have a lot more money working for you.
Co-Host: Denver Nowicz, President - Wealth For Life
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Denver is an advisor with nearly 20 years experience working with clients in investments and insurance, designing retirement plans with a combo of both. He takes us through different strategies for clients to get the best allocations for their money over the long term. It is the Combo Strategy of both Offense and Defense, the synergy of the mix, not ‘All or Nothing’.
Notes:
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Financial security is about control, but how do you gain control?
Market Risk - market goes up and down, when you lose money on a downturn, you have to wait for the market to rebound. You also lose time.
Taxes what most people don’t realize about a 401(k) is that 20 to 30% of the account is going to go to taxes.
Taxes are your biggest expense in retirement. Any gains in the 401(k) is taxed at ordinary income rates. Top 10% income earners in the country saving a 401(k) is not going to be in a lower tax bracket. The top 10% of income earners in the US pays 70% of all federal taxes.
Savings Balance - you cannot save as much if you’re experiencing market losses plus a high tax rate.
90% of all financial advice is to save money and put it in a 401(k). This advice does not apply as much if you are a top 10% income earner.
You need to have a game plan. It is difficult to predict where the market will go as no one can predict the future. The only thing you can do is prepare better.
Control 3 Things: Taxes, Assets & Income
If investments have a 20% loss every year how much would you focus on that?
This is what is happening with taxes, your money is taking a 20% loss every year. If you want to truly grow wealth you must master the tax code. This is how you can go from the top 10% in income to the top 5% or up.
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Control 3 Things for financial security, taxes, assets & income
The goal is to build multiple streams of income. Have assets write offs and other investment options.
Taxes is the biggest expense in your earning years and likely in retirement.
As you earn upwards of $500K a year or even 1 million, taxes will be your biggest impediment. The all in tax rate at $150K a year is 30%. If you start earning a $250K a year it is about 35%, and $500K and current year it is 40% +. Bottom line, if you’re in the top 10% taxes are our expense.
You want to own assets to cut taxes – examples: real estate, business, putting money in foundations
Over a five year span, if you save $50,000 a year that’s a total of $250K. If you double it goes to $500K. So if you lose $50K a year in taxes at is the equivalent over time of losing $500K or even $1,000,000+ compounded.
Control assets, you can use leverage to scale wealth.
Majority of high income earners in the US own a business. Businesses have many advantages, besides just the income that you can earn there’s also tax write offs and other advantages.
Build income streams through insurance strategies, annuity income, bond portfolios, dividend earning stocks, even CDs.
Layer up income streams. Use tax bucket strategy plus income streams.
Build a defensive set up, and over the long term you’ll have more money to invest and be offensive taking advantage of opportunities.
Stock market is very popular because it is liquid. Very easy to get in and out of stocks. But it also has risk and can be very volatile.
Investments in businesses and real estate are illiquid, harder to get in and out but can have more long-term advantages and tax advantages.
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