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Module 1 ·
How to use incentives to build wealth

Start here. The one idea every other lesson is built on — and the honest rule that keeps it real.

1Tax is a set of incentives, not just a bill

The government wants you to invest, save for retirement, and put a roof over people's heads — so it rewards those behaviours with tax breaks. Deductions, the 15% super rate, franking credits, the CGT discount — each one is the system paying you to do something it wants.

Wealthy people aren't dodging tax. They've simply learned the incentives and arranged their money to use them. That's the whole game, and it's completely legal. This course teaches you the most effective ones.

2There are two levers, not one

Lever 1 — keep more. Use an incentive to pay less tax this year. That's real money back in your pocket.

Lever 2 — compound it. The magic isn't the tax saved — it's investing that saving, year after year, so it grows. Tax saved and spent is gone; tax saved and invested becomes wealth.

Every lesson pulls both levers: cut the tax, then point the saving at an asset that grows.

3The honest rule we never break

An incentive gives back your tax rate — never 100%. Claim a $2,000 deduction at a 32% rate and you get ~$640 back, not $2,000. A refund is a discount, not free money.

So we never tell you to spend a dollar just to save 32¢, and we always show the real cost and the real risk first. If something sounds too good, the catch is usually the part nobody mentioned — we mention it.

4Try it — compound your tax saving

This is lever 2 in action. Say you save some tax every year and invest it instead of spending it:

Tax saved /year $3,000
Invested over 20 yrs
Invested at 10.5%, it becomes$190,000
you put in $60,000 · the rest, $130,000, is growth

10.5% ≈ the S&P 500 long-run average with dividends — shown to illustrate lever 2. A projection, not a promise; markets rise and fall. The point: the saving matters far less than what compounding does to it.

5It's one move, scaled up

Almost every tool in this course is the same idea — put a dollar to work before tax takes its cut, or claim a cost against your income — just bigger:

A work expense
against your salary
Super at 15%
not your rate
A geared asset
loss vs salary

Learn the move once here, and the rest of the course is just turning up the dial.

6Your roadmap

Next we'll find your numbers, then work through each incentive — easiest and lowest-risk first:

2 · Your real tax position 3 · Claim expenses against your salary 4 · Super — the 15% lever
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General educational information, not personal tax or financial advice. Figures are estimates for FY2025-26.

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