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Looking for some advice on a potential car move I got to make.

I've got an aged car at about 2010, and I need to either purchase a vehicle or lease one through my business,

which is what both my tax professional and my lawyer were like,

hey, that would be a great tax advantage. It's a good idea for you. What should I do?

Well, I mean, it comes down to, do you want to listen to your accountant and lawyer or just

two guys hosting a financial call-in show? Well, I know how Dave feels about leases. I mean,

that's kind of a given at this point,

but I just don't want to do stupid with some zeros on the end of it and just look at back

to this and go, oh, yeah, I should have leased the car or, oh, yeah, I should have bought it outright.

Do you have a dollar amount on the tax savings?

No, I don't.

That's one of those phrases that folks throw around.

Like, you shouldn't pay your house off because you can write the house off.

And people don't lay that up against the monthly mortgage payment and the tax and yada, yada, they pay, the interest payments they make.

This is one of those moments that I would wonder, and I'm making a purely math argument here,

and we'll talk about the psychology in a second.

I wonder what the actual tax savings would be versus the depreciation of the leased car.

Because that's what you're paying when you lease a car.

You're pre-paying the depreciation plus other fees. You're giving a gift to the car dealership because you are paying the

depreciation of the vehicle they have so they can turn around and sell it as a, as a inspected,

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