"There's No 100% Tax Break"
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.7 | My employer is offering a pre-tax benefit for leasing a vehicle. |
| 0:12.7 | So would this affect the financial, you know, advice comparison between leasing, financing, and buying a vehicle outright. |
| 0:21.9 | No. |
| 0:23.1 | Leasing a vehicle is financing a vehicle. |
| 0:25.1 | You're signing the lease, right? |
| 0:27.1 | Yes. |
| 0:27.7 | No, don't do that. |
| 0:28.8 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:30.0 | I'll take the money. |
| 0:31.2 | Just give me the money and I'll go buy a car. |
| 0:34.7 | Even though the lease would be pre-tax and if I buy the car it will be post-tax. |
| 0:40.7 | Doesn't matter. |
| 0:42.5 | Doesn't matter. |
| 0:43.9 | The deal is this. |
| 0:45.4 | Leasing is the most expensive way to operate a vehicle mathematically. |
| 0:50.5 | It's a rip-off. |
| 0:52.4 | The average cost of capital, quote, interest rate is 14.2%. |
| 0:56.8 | And you're buying a new car and it goes down in value like a rock and all of the lost |
| 1:02.9 | depreciation is built into the lease payment. |
| 1:04.9 | You're financing something you cannot afford to buy and you're calling it smart because |
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