Doug should show his taxes then he can write them off too

@RainOrigami

10 ай бұрын

*exploding brain sounds*

@zooning-6843

10 ай бұрын

I thought you could only write off things that cost money… (I know you making a joke, but I’m just trying to figure out how you would write off free information…)

@IsabelPerry

10 ай бұрын

@@zooning-6843 I traded all y friends for drogs and the inoter oh shit me and bye a strangery et yes

@riolkin

10 ай бұрын

@@IsabelPerry I had a stroke trying to read this comment.

@MrRedpanda2442

10 ай бұрын

@riolkin wdym that's perfect english

Does this mean Doug can write off his 4 thousand dollars worth of olive oil purchases?

@taomasterwaka6287

10 ай бұрын

He could if he became an olive oil streamer

@therandomjoshua

10 ай бұрын

Only the olive oil he drinks on stream

@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

10 ай бұрын

@@therandomjoshua I mean, him drinking olive oil is certainly a sort of bit that's part of his presentation as a streamer, so it could work.

@guyfieri6460

10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure you're low balling that olive oil number LMAO

@joden5279

10 ай бұрын

Hmmm. So I can be a breakfast burrito streamer and write off all of my the expenses from streaming it. Maybe ill be a Ferrari mechanic on twitch then I can write off all of the parts and labor! 😂 Thanks Doug. You have changed my life. Wow. You did it. WOOOOOWWWWWW

Ironically the more chat complained about the Gerald Ford shirt not being worthy of a tax write off, the more legitimate Doug's claim got since the higher engagement made it more relevant to the job and made him money from the bits/message read-outs.

@GolfcuBebe

2 ай бұрын

Chat is going to get charged for helping tax fraud💀

@dolphin1418

Ай бұрын

But if chat helps with tax fraud he doesnt commit as fraud

@j.b.5422

16 күн бұрын

hawt

I actually find it very interesting to hear how his tax write offs work as a streamer

@apeters8

10 ай бұрын

It works like this for every job. It's most common in self employed careers though.

@ktvindicare

10 ай бұрын

It's a massive headache though, doing taxes becomes almost a second job when you are self employed like this. That's how accountants eventually get hired, it just becomes too much to do when you are trying to run a business.

@briankale5977

10 ай бұрын

Any business*

@RealLifeIronMan

10 ай бұрын

Its perfectly legal, just know this is exactly how many wealthy people avoid paying taxes. Have a relative who owns a car dealership. He obviously writes off all the cars he buys as business expenses. However, he pockets a few cars for himself under his company's name and writes them off as business losses. The company is under his name, so in effect, he pays no taxes (because of all the tax write offs). Love DougDoug. Can guarantee he pays no taxes. Love him regardless.

@rodgerdodger2459

10 ай бұрын

Similar for all self employed people. I do Uber and write off so much stuff. The charging cables, music subscriptions, phone bill, streaming services, mints/water, etc.

i love when doug says "you can legally kill me if i evade taxes" half of the chat is scared and the rest is excited

@lester_the_molester

4 ай бұрын

The duality of man.

@ConnanTheCivilized

3 ай бұрын

@@lester_the_molester 💀 😂

Doug should make a tax evasion video game i bet he would really know all the intricacies needed to hit it out of the park

@faland0069

10 ай бұрын

dougdoug's big adventure

@invertebrado

10 ай бұрын

Maybe do a videogame called "Pepperboy commits tax evasion" and make the story and character pretty funny, but add a really dark lore for no reason.

@arosbastion7052

10 ай бұрын

he may not be good at 2d platformers, but he sure is good at tax evasion

@Naberius42233

10 ай бұрын

Have him play Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. Amazing game too :)

@lazydonkey3617

10 ай бұрын

@@invertebradoturnip boy* it's a short game but it's pretty good

“Name one thing Gerald Ford didn’t do as the President” Get elected

Fun fact: Spiro Agnew, the guy that Gerald Ford replaced as Nixon’s Vice President, resigned as VP because he got caught for tax evasion.

@it_buddy

10 ай бұрын

that's pretty poggies

@courier6960

10 ай бұрын

I thought it was because he was crazy or something too

@LocseryuOfficial

9 ай бұрын

@@courier6960thats what those woke liberal irs bastards want us to think, we know the cold hard truth

@connorrussell2084

7 ай бұрын

@@courier6960 a little column a, a little column b

@waltbriggs1821

2 ай бұрын

Gerald Ford for next streamer!!!

One of my favourite KZread videos of all time was when Tobuscus accidentally bought groceries with his business credit card, so he had to make a cooking video using all of the groceries he bought to avoid getting charged for tax fraud lmao.

@varogoth

10 ай бұрын

I miss toby...

@92Roar

10 ай бұрын

That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time

@haxie4516

9 ай бұрын

​@@92Roarikr? Full on nostalgia wave What's he even doing these days?

@92Roar

9 ай бұрын

@@haxie4516 on KZread it looks like he’s released like… 4 videos in the past year? After that whole sexual assault claim went out his channel kinda died. I have no idea whether or not they were verified or if they actually happened the idea of it was enough to make a tonne of people very uncomfortable

@PotentialLegend

8 ай бұрын

@@haxie4516 Spreading conspiracy theories on twitter lol

I like how doug is all serious andtries to be convincing at the start, but after some time he just descends into madness and yells: "I GOT THIS SHIRT FOR FREE"

I can't tell if chat is trolling Doug or if they just don't understand how tax write offs work. Both are entirely believable.

@neco5740

10 ай бұрын

Probably some that are one or the other and many that are both

@Naga_V

9 ай бұрын

Yes

@cthefro

9 ай бұрын

Honestly as someone who works as a team accountant I doubt the average person has any understanding how it works.

@temari2860

9 ай бұрын

And many people aren't from US@@cthefro

@jstar3382

7 ай бұрын

They don't understand, definitely

Love how Doug almost always has a speed run timer going, for basically zero reason.

@theapollojusticefanboy7962

10 ай бұрын

Well there is a reason this time as Doug played 2d platformers recommend by chat to prove he’s good at 2d platformers and he could only play for 15 minutes so the timer was keeping track of how long he was playing and when to stop.

@modulusshift

10 ай бұрын

It's a comfort timer. Chat freaks out if they don't have a solid grasp on the passage of time

@blakksheep736

10 ай бұрын

@@modulusshift that being said, the timer is literally not running.

@CricetoFunni

10 ай бұрын

@@blakksheep736 Correction: They don't need a reference on the passage of time, just on the _concept_ of time. The timer not running is fine because it still shows _a_ time.

@blakksheep736

10 ай бұрын

@@CricetoFunni ah huh. Yeah Twitch Chat does seem like the kind of personality who'd forget that time exists if they didn't receive constant reminder.

Having an image of you talking in your voice decades after your death talking about your death is dystopian.

@GaussianEntity

10 ай бұрын

The next step is to have an image of you talk about the moral and ethical implications of having an image of you talking in your voice decades after your death talking about your death in this dystopian landscape.

@j.b.5422

16 күн бұрын

eh, its dun

If doug does a house tour can he use the house as a tax write off

@adventurMan5

10 ай бұрын

I'd be difficult but it's crazy how possible it is

@Lemon-wl8ob

10 ай бұрын

​@@adventurMan5we need to ask parkzer for help

@durdleduc8520

10 ай бұрын

@@adventurMan5 it's not really that possible lol. it's like the t shirt joke. he bought the house for personal reasons first and benefits from it separate from work every day

@gredystar8333

10 ай бұрын

No. unless that house was purchased specifically for streaming or other business activities and nothing else and it is used on a regular basis. Both need to be true; it needs to see constant regular use for business purposes and remain exclusive to his business and not personal use. so doing one stream once would not be enough to clear the regular use part of the requirement. if that is where he did his edits and planned for streams, and he doesn't live in it, then yeah, absolutely. Important to note, he doesn't need to claim the entire property. If he has a room specifically for streaming, he can deduct that entire room along with utilities, maintenance, and repairs, heck even the depreciation of the value of his equipment in it. so, the fact that his gaming computer is both getting obsolete, and losing value due to use are deductible. and how value to that depreciation is calculated is just left up to you, as long as it is something "reasonable" and loosely based on real market prices.

@T0MMYNAT0R

10 ай бұрын

​@@gredystar8333He can rent it to himself.

The next game Doug should play is DougDoug Commits Tax Fraud, because he is clearly really good at it

@dissect123

10 ай бұрын

He is playing the best tax fraud of his life.

@akshaynd95

10 ай бұрын

I may get wooooshed for this, but there is literally a game called "Turnip boy commits tax evasion."

@levelmake7758

10 ай бұрын

That’s impossible since DougDoug Commits Tax Fraud is a 2d platformer, and Doug sucks at 2d platformers.

@formerlyknownasmousecopp4367

10 ай бұрын

@@akshaynd95 Yeah I've seen that game it's adorable. Would be very relatable for Doug

@highqualitygrunt8195

5 ай бұрын

​@@akshaynd95QUICK, SOMEONE TELL HIM ABOUT THE WORD ON THE CEILING

the person saying "DONT WRITE US OFF" lmaooo

Many business owners use their home as an office, and so they write off their own house as a business expense. However, this requires them to claim the house as a business asset. If they were to ever sell the company, they would lose the house, too. Sometimes this is legitimate, whereas sometimes they hardly use their house. DougDoug obviously streams from home, so if he bought a house I believe he could choose to do this. Only 90% sure this is correct info, tbf.

@2501Nero

10 ай бұрын

You can write off part of the rent/mortgage, since some of it is used for the business. Same for utilities. You normally want an accountant to handle that though

@rodgerdodger2459

10 ай бұрын

It’d be a percentage since he only uses his office for streaming and not the entire house. Not sure how it’s calculated but probably as percent of the total square footage.

@Spiker985Studios

10 ай бұрын

​@@rodgerdodger2459My assumption would be the percentage of square footage times the average time spent on camera Which would give you the average cost of the room during the stream

@haxie4516

9 ай бұрын

​@@Spiker985Studios That makes sense, but "Square foot per hour" is a unit of measurement that wrinkles my brain

That bit about Doug asking people to name something about Gerald Ford killed me way more than it should've

Man, wait until the twitch chatters find out you can donate to charity, which can exempt you from income taxes in most cases.

@jordanloux3883

10 ай бұрын

Considering you need to spend a certain amount on charitable donations before they can be deductible, I don't see that changing much

@CallMeSonja

10 ай бұрын

why do you think doug does the rosa streams?

@noxciel5073

10 ай бұрын

@@CallMeSonja He cant write it off because technically most of the money isnt his and he only acts as a bundler

@sarahmellinger3335

10 ай бұрын

do it on stream get negative tax

@AeyakS

10 ай бұрын

@@jordanloux3883 Yeah it does need to be a considerable amount, and it doesn't actually mean you're paying less money to charity than you would to the IRS. However, it's a lot like choosing where you think your tax dollars should go to instead of it just going to the government.

You mean to tell me THIS VIDEO ONLY SERVES THE PURPOSE OF WRITING OFF A SHIRT ON HIS TAXES?

@Smileyrat

10 ай бұрын

Yes

@bzipoli

10 ай бұрын

he found the loophole

@Door227

9 ай бұрын

I need to become a KZreadr so I can get away with my tax fruad

@j.b.5422

16 күн бұрын

pafext purposes

It seems we have a new favorite U.S. President in the DougDoug community give it up for Gerald Ford the guy that never won a presidential or Vice presidential election

@FyrFeline

10 ай бұрын

I already loved him enough to write a 8 page essay on him in 7th grade 🤣

This is such a perfect edit of the hilarious part of the stream, I love how well it shows the ridiculous Gerald Ford tangent too!

I can't believe DougDoug wrote off his twitch chat to get it for free. What a guy.

as an accountant, it's scary how little people know about taxes

@bzipoli

10 ай бұрын

are all accountants devoid of sense of humour or just you? you shouldn't be, bc you're part of doug's audience bro

@conorfromouterspace

10 ай бұрын

@@bzipoli man are you a silly-pilled goosecel

@nevada2765

10 ай бұрын

@@bzipoli gimme a hug! !,,, ,!!! , !

@PouLS

10 ай бұрын

Tbf tax laws are different from country to country.

@cthefro

9 ай бұрын

​@@bzipolinot saying op is but most are from someone who is a tax accountant.

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is 66% off right now on Steam, and with your streaming tax deduction, it's practically free. When can we expect a play through?

From talking about tax write-offs to making an AI Gerald Ford. What a crazy ride Doug's content is.

This is one of those moments where I can't tell if chat is fucking with him or genuinely doesn't understand. Not trying to say it's super common knowledge, but at the very least I understand what he's talking about.

@bzipoli

10 ай бұрын

its a joke. he says it himself there must been a group of people (implied small) who doesn't know - but in like 8k people you can find almost anything. doug's audience is unusually smart for their age, specially on twitch (not including myself i'm way way older than his general audience)

The fact that some people in chat think he's getting money back for it means they were probably committing some kind of tax fraud by doing their taxes wrong

@DondlFondl

10 ай бұрын

Or kids. Much more likely.

@JayJonahJaymeson

10 ай бұрын

I don't think it's something most folks really have to deal with in more typical jobs.

I like how this introduces the idea of an anti-tax fraud stream where you buy a whole bunch of games, then you have to speedrun them on December 31st or else you get sued for all of your networth

I love how even Doug's clips have their own subplots now.

I hate that the person said it's fraud in Canada because it's not. In fact we have lesser laws on business expenses and its much easier to claim

@marcar9marcar972

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, people think there’s a bunch of laws in Canada protecting the people but last time I checked, churches are being burned, veterans euthanized, and what, you can fined for speech?

@bzipoli

10 ай бұрын

why would you hate someone for doing a joke

@kaydonbob03

10 ай бұрын

@@bzipoli this was also a joke. As a Canadian, we don't have the ability to actually hate someone

@Door227

9 ай бұрын

@@kaydonbob03Canadians also don’t have the ability to exist because Canada isn’t real

@malikajupiter9835

3 ай бұрын

Wait so it's not fraud in Canada lol?

if anything doug said were true he would have just got parkzer on to tell chat. the only reason he didn't bring parkzer on is because he knows he's guilty

I really like how this video pivots to a Gerald Ford video

Next he's going to say that purchasing food is a business expense because you can't run a business without a living person or something.

@Smileyrat

10 ай бұрын

Aperently, if bought for and eaten on stream, it can be. I think chat asked that in this stream. Or i may be thinking of a parkzer stream.

I can't wait to see Pajama Sam & The Ghost of Al Capone in "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Tax Bureau".

Hearing the ai Gerald Ford say poggies is hilarious

this went from discussing tax writeoffs to making an AI Gerald Ford so fast

He finally admitted tax fraud

@anthonybowman3423

10 ай бұрын

Law as written, you can only write something off as a work expense if it isn't something you would use outside of work. Like, just using your car once for a work trip doesn't make the car a tax write off if it's usually your personal vehicle. Given, it's hard to prove and usually not pursued unless it's something really obvious or egregious. Most tax professionals won't even worry about it for most things. But technically... ehhhh...

@bzipoli

10 ай бұрын

WE GOT HIM BOYS

I was so ready for it to come full circle with Spiro Agnew (that vice president who resigned) resigned because of TAX FRAUD!

You can see the frustration in how the discourse is so idiotic that you literally can't tell who is just joking and who genuinely doesn't understand basic personal finance.

Every time Doug hurts himself, like in a car accident, he just has to be streaming it all the time. Boom, free healthcare.

"How to Evade Taxes, ft DougDoug."

I can't unsee that Doug did the masking wrong so there's a hole in Gerald's stomach

I can't believe we're complicit in Doug's tax crimes.

Genuinely surprised he didn't end up phoning Parkzer.

Why is half the video about Gerald Ford

@NYCFIGHTBACKROOMS

20 күн бұрын

Doug's fidget toy tierlist

"My dear friends. My fellow Americans. George Washington" (с) Gerald Ford, 1974

As a fellow tax evader my self these are really good and useful tips 👍

I know some stuff about Gerald Ford, My Mom actually ran into him at a bicentennial event while he was president

Can't wait for the Parkzer Arrests DougDoug For Tax Evasion stream!

I feel like this could have been a great opportunity to call Parkzer

So that's why he did a house tour, he just made the house and everything in it free!

Talk all the shit you want to about Gerald Ford, but he's got an aircraft carrier named after him.

As Doug’s taxes, I can confirm that he does evade me. 😢 come back dad

Doug so lucky he can get infinite amounts of olive oil for free

To explain this situation. Say Doug makes 10k from steaming (his pre-tax dollars) and then spends 1k on business expenses. Then he only has to pay taxes on 9k dollars.

i like how even the derailment derails

Does this mean Parkzer was free? Crazy how he gets free legal and police advice from the government now

I knew a guy who edited the Wikipedia page for Gerald Ford and replaced the image in the infobox with a near-identical image with a slightly larger forehead. I don't associate with that guy anymore, but the bit was very funny.

I love how he switches from saying that it wasn’t free but he didn’t have to taxes on it to saying he got it for free.

Dougdoug is going to stream himself walking into a million dollar mansion so he can get it for free

Only thing I know about gerald ford is that he started a conflict by putting ships by a coastline to be shot at, great leader

Does that mean the bunny suit was a tax write off

I love the clips channel so much because the random tangents are amazing and I love them.

the reason I know Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon is that I once saw a political cartoon drawing in a school textbook of Nixon driving a Ford car to freedom

“Mom you won’t believe this, but my new job comes with a free $500 to buy sneakers and juice! It’s called an HSA or something!”

dougdoug explains taxes to a hivemind

Its a 7 minute video and yet skipping through it without context is a wild experience, going from tax evation to gerald ford

Thank you mister streamer for explaining tax write offs to me. I actually feel like I understand it better now LOL

Doug should let us do his taxes

it figures twitch chat has no idea how running a business works

More things he is able to write off, the section in his house he streams in, internet, and now ford

Reminder that tax evasion is illegal, but tax AVOIDANCE, is legal.

As a canadian I can say it is in fact, not tax fraud here lol

Wait, this also means that all the fast food he ate was tax deductible

I cannot believe you helped Doug evade taxes for his shirts and TotK purchase by making this video, editor

I didn't even realize I was being used to cover up tax evasion until the video was already over.... Well played Doug....

Day after day I realize me and DougDoug are not so different after all

In Spain, KZreadrs started to escape once the government started to tax them

the only reason this clip exists is to write off that gerald ford short

Can someone please tell me why i learned how tax write offs work from DougDoug and not from the class I took in high school about owning your own business

@KingFunky

10 ай бұрын

Honestly. 3 years in business college with a module of civil law and this 8 minute video has taught me more

chat not understanding taxes

The only thing I know about Gerald Ford is that apparently he fell over a lot.

And so, Gerald Ford is subsumed into the DougDoug cinematic universe, alongside Saul Goodman, Thanos, and God.

The real reason why the clips channel exists, just so he can make sure it's all deductible

What we all learned here is that Doug is in a 30% tax bracket

You can see the regret on his face after he says it because he instantly knows what’s going to happen

Doug Doug could be writing off his meals after just eating on stream

I cant wait for the Doug pays his taxies stream

That's my felon streamer!

Jerma: STOP BLUEBALLING ME AND PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!!!

Come for the gameplay stay for the blatant tax evasion

@GaussianEntity

10 ай бұрын

Come for the tax evasion, stay for the blatant Gerard Ford-GPT

This has made me realise that I know literally nothing about taxes

Send the pepper to prison

I’m Gerald Ford and you’re not. -Gerald Ford

Fun fact about Gerald Ford: he played football for the university of michigan and got actual nfl offers. But he declined them.

I always love gameplay for Jerma's big adventure

Can't believe DougDoug doesn't evade taxes #notmystreamer

4:09 IRS: Gosh Darn, that man has foiled us again! We must prevent him from joining forces with that Turnipchino kid at all cost.

The more he protest / argues the more it feels like tax fraud D: