Ethereum
- Ethereum, is the third cryptocurrency created after Bitcoin and Litecoin.
- Ethereum is the cryptocurrency token you need to pay for any transaction on the Ethereum blockchain, this fee is called a transaction fees and sometimes refer to as gas.
- The price of Ethereum has risen steadily in value from a few cents to thousands of dollars, and at one time was $4000.00 dollars USD per token.
- So Ethereum is a valuable asset to own, but you need money to eat, so what options do have besides selling?
- At this point your probably wondering How else can
- Sometimes when I am wondering what the best choice is I ask myself, what would I do if I was rich and had the very best tax advisors? I would find a way to take cash out which didn't generate a taxable event and didn't involve losing the asset.
- One very smart way to do this is to take out a loan on the asset.
- Why? a loan, in general, is not considered income, therefore it is not taxable.
- And while you do use the asset as security for the loan, unless you default on the loan, you aren't selling the asset.
- And if structured as a business loan, the interest is actually tax deductible.
- Wow... consider this
- You get access to some of your gains, you don't pay taxes, you keep the asset and you generate tax dedductions to reduce your taxabvle income.
- Sweet.
So do millionaires actually do this?
- What do Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates have in common?
- All three were billionaires, who became famous on some random year for not paying much in taxes.
- And in each case they did this by applying this strategy or some variation of it, to fit their particular circumstance.
- These billionaires are considered asset rich and cash poor. This is a quaint little English idiom, which unlike most idioms is quite literal in it's meaning.
- These billionaires don't get paid much in cash, they get paid mostly in stock or stock options to be more precise.
- Thus they have large Net Worths as in they are worth billions of dollars, but their net worth is mostly in what are called unrealized gains.
- One example of Unrealized gains is an assets you own, which have gone up in value, and you have chosen not to sell them.
- So just like the Bitcoin Millionaire who has 1000 Bitcoin worth 30,000 a piece, who bought it at 1 dollar, and has has unrealized gains of 29,000 per Bitcoin, on 1000 Bitcoin, these billionaires don't want to sell their stock, because the tax owed would be very great.
- Instead these rich people take out loans to provide cash for their rich, luxurant lifestyles.
This is why you should never sell your Ethereum
- Instead of selling it, and realizing all those unrealized gains, you take out a loan on it.
- You get cash, you get tax deductions, and you get to keep your Ethereum.
- What are the actual mechanics of this? Thats the content for my next article.
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