Episode 55: How Taxes Affect Your Points Hobby with Carter Cofield

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Carter Cofield of @cofield_advisor is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs save money on taxes. He’s spent years learning the best tax savings strategies so that he can teach them to entrepreneurs and business owners everywhere. He’s also the owner of Cofield’s Concepts which is a financial literacy website teaching people how to make more money, pay less taxes, and be their own boss!
In this episode, Carter and I discuss tax considerations if you’re getting deeper into the points hobby. Are points taxable? What about bank bonuses? Will the IRS get mad at you if you use personal expenses to meet minimum spends for business credit cards? What are some tax writeoffs you can get for being in this hobby? Get excited to find out!

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Julia Menez

During the pandemic, Julia was stuck at home and wanted to talk to more friends about points and miles. So she reached out to some points people on Instagram and the conversation went something like this…

Julia: hey, do you want to hang out on a Zoom video chat and talk about points?
Other people: no…. I don’t even know you.
Julia: what if I record our conversation and release it to thousands of people on the internet?
Other people: Oh! Are you starting a points podcast? I’d love to be featured!

And thus the Geobreeze Travel was born, if only to bamboozle other points people into being friends with Julia.

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