Taxes Are Theft. Here’s How To Stop Paying Them (Legally)
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Pineda and Brian Davila sit down with Greg Taylor from Taylor Tax to break down the biggest tax strategies business owners and real estate investors use to legally reduce taxes, from R&D credits and cost segregation to short-term rental loopholes and oil investments.
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CHAPTERS:
CHAPTERS:
1:26 - Greg’s Tax Journey
5:35 - Credits Vs Write-Offs
7:24 - Qualifying For R&D
12:29 - Cost Segregation Explained
17:03 - Bonus Depreciation Returns
18:33 - Short-Term Rental Loophole
20:29 - Vehicle Write-Off Strategies
22:44 - Biggest Tax Filing Mistakes
24:27 - Fear Of IRS Audits
31:10 - Vacation Write-Off Rules
36:17 - Oil & Gas Tax Strategy
39:13 - Retirement Plan Tax Credits
44:18 - Passive Income Explained
46:07 - Real Estate Professional Rules
49:32 - Entity Structures & Taxes
52:11 - Common LLC Mistakes
55:24 - Building Long-Term Wealth
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| 0:00.0 | The worst part about making a bunch of money is that you have to pay a lot of taxes if you don't |
| 0:04.7 | know what you're doing. And today's guest is going to help us not do that. We're going to talk about |
| 0:09.3 | all the different tax strategies that you could be implementing to pay as little to even no taxes. |
| 0:14.1 | In fact, I recently audited some of my tax returns from a few years back and found new credits |
| 0:20.2 | that I was not aware of when I first filed that are saving me hundreds of thousands of dollars that are going to be coming back to me. So today, I've got Greg Taylor from Taylor Tax Strategy. What's up, man? Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah. And then we've got, of course, the bald guy, the bald guy, Brian. Ready to save on some taxes, Taylor. We need your help. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.3 | We need your help. |
| 0:40.3 | Save us, Taylor. |
| 0:41.3 | So you've been on the show before. |
| 0:44.3 | You've been at some of the events and everything else too with WealthCon and all that good stuff. |
| 0:49.3 | But for those who haven't seen you, give us like a brief rundown of how you got here. Yeah, so I have a |
| 0:56.7 | bookkeeping company that I started with about 15 years ago. So I was just doing bookkeeping for |
| 1:01.8 | clients. And I started going to my tax preparer and saying, hey, can I do this thing? Hey, can I try |
| 1:08.1 | this strategy? And over time, I kind of just realized I was coming up |
| 1:13.0 | with all of my tax strategy. So why didn't I just get certified to do my own taxes and start doing |
| 1:18.3 | my own strategy as well? And then started doing that about 15 years ago, started working with |
| 1:23.7 | business owners about 12 years ago. Yeah. And then when did you come to that first |
| 1:28.6 | wealth con? That was like what? It was the one at Mandalay Bay. I think it was like four years ago. |
| 1:34.1 | Was that right? Yeah. Yeah, that was on with Hormozzi. Yep. That was, yeah, the end of 2022. |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah. Yeah. So I remember you came in, joined the program, and, you know, the tax firm was small at the time. |
| 1:48.1 | You were coming for, like, real estate. |
| 1:49.5 | Yeah, I was actually considering shutting down the tax and accounting company completely and just going all in on real estate. |
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