Forgemark Tax Strategy

How we work

Your taxes aren’t a bill. They’re a plan.

For business owners facing the biggest tax bill of their lives. Here’s how we think about taxes, and what working with us looks like from the first conversation on.

See how it works “How much will this cost me?” “What is the tax code rewarding me to build?” How we think ↓

How we think about taxes

A different question changes the answer.

Most owners treat taxes as a one-time event: the year closes, the bill arrives, and the hope is that a sharper preparer finds a way to make it smaller. By then, the decisions that set the number have already been made.

The usual way

  • Taxes are settled once a year, after the fact
  • “How much will this cost me?”
  • Savings depend on finding a cleverer preparer

Our way

  • Taxes are planned before and during the year
  • “What is the tax code rewarding me to build?”
  • Savings come from structure, set up on the record

The tax code is a playbook. It’s full of incentives written on purpose, for owners who build the way it rewards.

What tax strategy is

Strategy leads. Everything else follows it.

Tax Strategy

The proven path. It uses what the tax code rewards (structure, compensation, real estate, retirement, generational wealth assets, timing) to change what you owe before the year ends.

Straight down the fairway. No gray-area strategies needed.

Tactic

Tax Planning

Puts the strategy on the calendar: projections, estimated payments, and the moves to make before year-end.

Tactic

Tax Preparation

Returns filed to reflect the plan, so what you did during the year shows up correctly.

Tactic

Tax Representation

Audit defense and IRS letters answered by the people who built your plan, so a notice never pulls you off it.

Tactic

Tax Resolution

Back taxes, liens and levies: issues to clear so they don’t hold the plan back.

How it works

Four moves, from first conversation to a plan that runs all year.

  1. 1

    First meeting

    Discover

    We learn your business, your goals, and what’s ahead. You learn how we work. Together we decide whether a full assessment makes sense for you.

  2. 2

    The diagnosis

    Assess

    Like a doctor running labs before a diagnosis. We gather your recent returns and documents, hold an onboarding call, forecast what you’re on track to owe this year, and build a plan customized to you.

  3. 3

    Your findings

    Launch

    We walk you through where you stand today, where you could stand, and each strategy that fits. Then we put the plan in motion.

  4. 4

    All year

    Execute

    Strategies implemented, quarterly reviews, the plan adjusted as your business changes, and your returns filed to match.

Done for you, all year

A plan that never sits on a shelf.

Five promises that keep turning, with a quarterly review as the rhythm that keeps the plan current.

Dedicated Tax Strategist

One direct line all year, not a call center or a portal.

Done-for-you implementation

Every strategy from your assessment, carried out for you.

Quarterly plan adjustments

We review every quarter and adjust as your income, business or the tax code changes.

Done-for-you tax filing

Personal and business returns filed from the same plan.

Audit defense & representation

If the IRS asks about anything we implemented, we stand with you.

Every strategy in your plan gets implemented or set aside by your decision. If anything is still open at year’s end, we keep working at no added cost.

What strategy can do

Real results from the strategies we use.

40%+

Savings found for an HVAC business owner with $2.1M in taxable income, through his entity, equipment depreciation, a reimbursement plan and real estate.

$144,848

Projected savings over the first years for a business owner with rentals, more than half his tax bill. He used it to buy another investment property.

$1M

Saved for an owner who had been paying $1.5M in taxes, by putting real estate to work, with $15,000 a month in cash flow on top.

Results from clients of our strategy network. Every situation is different, and yours will depend on your own facts.

The goal

End next year paying radically less than you did this one.

It starts with a conversation. Tell us what you’re working toward. No obligation.

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