The 9 Tax Strategies Most $1M+ Practice Owners Are Never Offered
Not because they're hidden. Because offering them is a different job than filing your return — and almost nobody is hired to do both.
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Nine strategies, in plain English
- 1
The entity election that stops being right somewhere between $400K and $1M — and why nobody's job is to notice when it does
- 2
Why what you pay yourself is a strategic decision, not a payroll setting
- 3
The retirement plan design most owners over 45 have never had explained to them
- 4
What it actually means to own the building your practice rents from you
- 5
Employing your children: the version that works, and the version that gets people in trouble
- 6
The depreciation choice made by default on most returns because nobody asked
- 7
Working across state lines — and the filing obligations that quietly follow
- 8
The QBI deduction and why it behaves strangely at exactly your income level
- 9
The one decision that must happen before December 31, or it doesn't happen at all
Twenty minutes to read. Written in plain English, by a CPA, for people who own the practice rather than the accounting degree.
Katherine M. Johnson, CPA, CTRS
Thirty years representing taxpayers in front of the IRS, in all fifty states. That background is unusual for someone writing about tax planning, and it's the reason this guide has nothing exotic in it.
I've watched clever positions fall apart under examination. Everything in here is ordinary, well-established, and durable.