Name: The 7 Types of Income Millionaires Have
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T19:40:05.000Z
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Microsoft, one of the largest tech companies in the world has created 3 billionaires but

it also has created over 12K millionaires, that's a big number. In fact, now we have

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more millionaires than ever had, largely due to the rise of the internet and globalization.

But making money, or keeping your money isn't easy because the world is changing so fast

that if you aren't smart enough, you might lose your wealth in a blink of an eye, that's

why an average millionaire has 7 streams of income.

You don't want to put all of your eggs in one basket if something goes wrong! You are

doomed. So, Let's find out the different streams of

Ordinary Income  The most usual type of income which is also

known as ordinary income. It includes wages, salaries, bonuses, and commissions.

Its when you are directly trading your time for money. Of course, it has its own limitations

since your time is always limited but that's not the only problem with this type of income.

In 2018, the government (US) collected 3.3 trillion dollars in taxes. and more than half

(51%) of that came from income taxes. In comparison, the corporate income tax only made 8 percent

of the government's revenue. Which means people with this type of income

Another 35 percent of revenue comes from payroll taxes, which suppose to be split between you

and your employer to fund social security, medicare and so on. But research has shown

that employers pass their portion of the cost to workers.

So, People with earned income pay 86 percent of all the taxes while billionaires pay almost

In one way its the easiest form of income because you don't have to do a lot of thinking

or take any risk, with some set of skills, you can find a job, that's why it's highly

taxed. But it's not sustainable at all since if you lose this job, you lose your only source

But don't worry, in this video you will learn what type of income millionaires or

billionaires have to make so much money while avoiding taxes completely.

Capital Gains is when you buy an asset such as a stock or property and then sell it for

a higher price. That profit margin is your capital gain.

Let's say you buy 100 stocks for 100 dollars each, or 10 000 dollars in total, the stock

price rises to 120 dollars, and you decide to cash-out (12K).

The tax rate is typically around 15 to 20 percent at best on capital gains on long term

investment and 37 in the short term. And if you pay attention it's really popular among

the millionaires not because the tax rate is just 20 percent but if you are smart about

The first way one is super easy. Just don't sell, keep holding your investment, even if

you make billions of dollars, you don't have to pay a dime. But that might not work

for everyone, you might have to sell some of your investment to have cash on your hands.

Tax-loss harvesting! Its when you sell an investment at all a loss

to reduce your tax bill. At first glance it doesn't make sense, why would you purposely

Let's say you are a professional investor and you have multiple stocks in your portfolio.

Your stock “A” increased by 300 thousand dollars which is great.

But unfortunately, your stock “B” decreased by 25 percent, your 200 thousand dollars investment

and let's say you want to sell 50 thousand dollars of your stock A to have some cash.

Ideally, you should be paying a 15 percent capital gain tax (7.5K dollars).

But there is another way, sell your stock B first for 150K dollars and buy a similar

investment for the same amount ($150K) to realize your loss.

since you have a 50 thousand dollars of realized loss, you can deduct it from your tax bill.

So if you are selling 50 thousand dollars of your stock A, you can deduct the $50K loss.

Boom, your tax bill is zero! ( $50K (capital gain from stock A) - $50K (realized loss from

selling stock B) x 15% ( capital gain tax) = $0)

It's much more complicated than this, and I have oversimplified it and ignored a lot

of details but that's the idea behind it! usually, it's not done manually but rather

through a computer with a specific algorithm that makes it much easier.

Investors continuously sell their bad investments and reinvest the money back into a similar

asset to realizes losses because you can keep carrying them forward for the rest of your

life. SO when you make a capital gain, you either dramatically lower your taxes bill

but that's not the only income you get from purchasing stock. owning a stock is like owning

a piece of a company, even if that means owning such a small percentage that it won't make

any difference. And its understandable because companies nowadays grow to trillions of dollars.

And as one of the owners, the company has to share with you its profits as a form of

However, companies usually don't pay dividends even if they make billions of dollars such

as Google, Boeing or facebook, because they keep the profits within the company to reinvest

it back. That's why most investors are concerned about the stock price and not the dividend.

But companies like Apple do pay dividends. As of November 2018, Apple paid shareholders

a dividend of 73 cents per share. That's not much, but something is better than nothing.

Dividend income is taxed base on your income tax bracket, most people would fall between

12 to 24 percent. However there is still a way to avoid those

rental income is probably everyone's favorite. You buy a property and then rent it out!

It's mostly passive where you don't have to be actively involved. However, from my

experience, its much more time consuming than most people think.

Tenants come and go, some stay for a few months, others for a few years. Some take care of

your property others don't give a damn. Some pay on time and won't get you a single

problem, others are just unnecessary headaches, so it has its pros and cons.

However, there is also the commercial property that you rent out to businesses which in some

cases is a better idea.  Theoretically you rent almost anything starting

from your car to your phone. However real estate is the most common one.

In 1997, a guy named Jeff Bezos filed a patent, a method for ordering items online. Instead

of first adding your item to your shopping cart and then clicking BUY (on amazon), You

could simply click buy.  it sounds so simple that no one should have

patented that, but for the last 2 decades, Amazon made billions of dollars licensing

this patent to companies such as Apple.  That's why corporations file for a lot of

patents, even if they don't need them because they could be a potential source of income.

This is the real passive income. You keep getting paid after your work is done, but

that also includes, writing a book, shooting a movie.

This form of income is usually popular among the artist, Musicians for example usually

make money by letting other people use or sell their music.