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Just an Elliott is a reporter for ProPublica.

And for the last year, he's been trying to understand the secret language of taxes.

How did you prep to cover taxes?

Like, were taxes always your jam like you wanted to learn about the tax code?

No, not at all.

Actually, I had a very painful period at the beginning of this year where I started going to American Bar Association,

tax law conferences.

Justin says, when you show up at one of these conferences, it's kind of like going to a foreign country.

As a layperson, you sort of understand maybe 20% of what's being talked about.

But what you do understand very quickly is that there's an army of very, very smart people and suits

who do understand this and spend all their time thinking about it and sort of working with the tax code.

It sounds like at a tax conference, every panel is just about how to not pay taxes.

That's a lot of it.

But using acronyms in jargon that make it basically impossible to understand for a normal person.

Over the last year or so, this new kind of tax conference crapped up.

All about what's called an opportunity zone.

Justin says, these two words, they mean different things to different people.

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