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🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Hit the streets with Daily Show correspondent Josh Johnson as he goes hunting for tax shelters, talks to New Yorkers about congestion pricing, finds out which celebrity endorsements would work on men, and convenes a focus group to better understand black voters.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:08.3 | Welcome back to The Daily Show. |
0:09.9 | It was Tax Day this week, but some people, and this is crazy, don't like paying taxes. |
0:15.5 | And one of them is our own Josh Johnson. |
0:19.1 | It's long been known that in America, the rich often don't pay their fair share of taxes. |
0:23.4 | By exploiting a complex tax system filled with loopholes, the richest 1% pay a lot less |
0:28.0 | than the average taxpayer. |
0:29.7 | But how do they do it? |
0:31.0 | And could I learn their tricks to help out the everyday taxpayer like you and I? |
0:34.5 | I spoke to tax expert Robert Wood of tax Room Wood LLP to find out the easiest |
0:38.5 | ways to dodge the IRS. His first tip? Real estate, big tax shelter, so generally speaking, |
0:45.2 | you write off a piece of the building every year. So on like this year I'll claim the bathroom |
0:52.4 | and then like the next year. But just to clarify, you only get to do this if you own the bathroom. And then like the next year... |
0:54.6 | But just to clarify, you only get to do this if you own the building. |
0:58.2 | Not that you work here. |
0:59.6 | That is all very interesting, but I do not own the building. |
1:04.6 | So I'm back to square one. |
1:07.4 | Charity is another one. |
1:08.6 | So let's say I started charity. |
1:10.6 | And my charity will be real. |
1:13.7 | Very real. Okay. My charity of broke-ass audits. |
1:17.7 | Like you getting audited, let's break off your broke-ass a little cash, right? |
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