I've never been in a business where taxes were taken from the profit =
side

Nope. You have your gross. You deduct your deductibles. You pay your =
employees. You pay the tacxes on your employees. You pay the retail =
tax on your wholesale purchases turned into retail sales. After all is =
said and done, there's the profit. And then you pay taxes on that. I'
ve had two small businesses of my own and that's how it's worked. =
That's how it's worked for the larger businesses that I've been =
associated with. All you're doing is ignoring the fact that your =
business paid taxes.

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