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I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck
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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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Quality post. I really did think I was reading an Onion headline.
And I have to admit, the first time I saw the guy in my neighborhood who bought one driving it around, I pointed and laughed too.
Kind of reminded me of this one.
That one's a classic.
Bitch almost made me laugh
Wow! I skimmed through the article and legitimately thought it was an onion article until I read your comment.
The only one I see regularly is owned by a sneaker shop and has a tacky vinyl wrap with their logo.
Those ones we just refuse to acknowledge, corporations pay through the nose for attention, so don't give it to them
Business write off...
That's not really how that works, just because it's a business expense doesn't mean it's free money.
It does mean it's cheaper to put a wrap on the truck than pay taxes. That's all I was getting at.
That doesn’t really make sense, even if they’re in the 37% tax bracket if the wrap costs $100 they only save $37 on taxes.
They're probably claiming the entire truck as a business expense because of the wrap. Therefore, they're able to basically buy it with untaxed money, saving whatever their effective business tax rate is on the $100k or whatever. Of course, stuff like that is usually a bit of light tax fraud, because many small business owners just want a big expensive truck, but putting advertising on the car you drive for personal use doesn't make every mile a business mile. You can deduct the wrap itself, and if you are diligent you can deduct a reasonable and justifiable amount based on the advertising value and actual business use, but especially for shop owners, this is just tacky business owners hoping they don't get audited.
They probably think "tax deductible" means you take the entire value off your taxes or something.