<prompt> Human: Please pardon me if this is beyond the scope of PF. I have had a couple windfall years with my business and my projected tax liability for 2015 is absolutely staggering. I believe I am at the stage where I need help. The fancy tricks that weve all heard the rich use to mitigate their liabilities. Converting income to capital gains, shell corps, gifts, setting up charities, restructuring, ANYTHING. Based on my trajectory, my salary retained earningsprofits at year end will give me a take-home income of over 1mil. Based on this, im staring down the barrel of a 400k check ill have to write to the government thats on top of the 120k ive already paid in estimated. Anyone care to point me in the right direction? If not and this is indeed beyond the spirit of PF, I do apologize, im not sure where to turn. I have meetings this week with advisors so maybe theyll help me out, however ive had 3-4 people in the past CPAs, Investment specialists, etc all say they can do something but in the end say tough shit, pay up  <response>: You should find the closest large law firm, and go and speak to a tax attorney, pay for some good advice, and also find a wealthfinancial planner that the law firm recommends. This is not a question for rpersonalfinance, where the vast majority of posters are a well-intentioned and b drastically inexperienced in anything this complicated and I include myself in this -- youre likely to get advice that works great for someone with 50k and pretty poorly for somone with 500k. Speak to the professionals.As a general rule, youll probably have to pay a fair chunk because a lot of tax avoidanceminimizationdeferral strategies require you to have things in place BEFORE you earn the money, rather than after youve earned it. But theres probably things that the pros can do for you.The other thing to think about is whether your business will continue to be as successful as it was this year. If so, its worth thinking about restructuring it to be more tax-efficient. Again, way beyond this sub, so speak to the professionals. Tax lawyer, CPA, financial adviser. Big, reputable wealth management firms.EDIT: also, the best way to find good people is via word of mouth. Speak to other local business owners, people with high incomes or higher net worths, and see if any names keep coming up. 