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Play dirty right back at them.

If you get a job at Corporation-X your wages can be garnished for failure to pay a debt. If you own your own business and a your corporation is employed by Corporation-X your business can't have it's income interfered with.

How you get paid by your corporation is not fit for discussion on this forum.

Note: This applies to Canadian tax/debt law. I don't know how well it works elsewhere.

If you know a doctor who owns their own practice ask them 'how they do it'.

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In the US, I'm pretty sure you couldn't get away with this. Business expenses are held against income to determine how much tax you pay. There are strict guidelines on what counts as a business expense versus a personal expense. I suspect spending a ton on groceries and rent/mortgage for a residential address would raise some flags and get you audited.

There is always the classic income tax dodge.

Incorporate, then hire your wife, mistress, children, and random family members.

If you're employing people in lower tax brackets that might save a little bit of money if they funnel it back to you. But I don't generally hear about that tactic. It would be more relevant if you were wanting to bleed a not for profit entity where there are legal caps on the types of income executives can make.

The classic tax dodge is the $1 salary and getting taxed at capital gains rates instead

Back when top marginal rates were 70% And corporate/capital gains taxes were also high. It was a classic thing.

Limited liablity only works one way: individual cannot be personally liable for the debt of the corporation. But if you, the owner, are in debt then there's a simple solution for your creditor: seize your shares in said corporation (and after gaining control over corporation, just take money from its bank account).

Usually, the people owed the debt is not the people who the loan was spent on. You aren't playing dirty back at them, you are just making someone else the victim of the monetary loss.

No, I reject this. The loan system in the US (at least) is dirty through and through, and anyone who ends up buying debt off of a major corporation is especially sleazy. And heck, if the banks get in trouble through irresponsible lending it'll be fine for them - their loss will end up coming out of all of our pockets.

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