Every April you accept a number. You write the check. You carry the frustration into spring and make the same promise: “I'll be more proactive next year.” And then you don't. Because the year gets busy — and no one forces the conversation.
But here's what that annual routine is really costing you: every dollar lost to unnecessary taxation is a dollar that never compounds. Never builds. Never works for you while you sleep. Multiply that across a career and you're not talking about tax friction. You're talking about years still on the treadmill.
