January 2024: Hip Hop Means Business

Originally published: January 2024

I’ll continue with monthly overviews for now, as it gives me an excuse to pivot tax discussions to music. But to build up numbers, the links here aren’t strictly my LI posts. So this was January.

Top posts:
– I will be posting less on LI (https://lnkd.in/eueNV9Wm)
– How a DD call could go bad (https://lnkd.in/eN_yHAeN)

News:
– EU starts infringement against 9 countries not implementing P2 in time (source: https://lnkd.in/esvGd52e)
– UN complains P2 risks violating human rights (Dan Neidle’s reaction: https://lnkd.in/eqZZ6KVW)
– Belgium is EU president (https://lnkd.in/e6uWJFFW)

Tax technical side roads:
– Webcasts on P2 implementation (https://lnkd.in/e3XexwBc) and TP and P2 impact on financing activities (https://lnkd.in/eCThUPj3)
– In-house tax worried about double tax (https://lnkd.in/e7mDfP47)
– Dutch case law on BO (https://lnkd.in/ecgb_FZ5)
– German case law on exit taxes (https://lnkd.in/epdhFiix)
– US case law on anti-abuse rules (https://lnkd.in/eT5cXyzm)
– My conversation with Jefferson VanderWolk (https://lnkd.in/eJ7h6cKU)
– No clear meaning of words like “source tax” (https://lnkd.in/efqU-uWk with Tony Allen) and “base erosion” (https://lnkd.in/e97aXScC with Future)
– MLI was slow to be adopted (https://lnkd.in/ePPkH4D6)
– Initial phase relief does not make P2 invalid (https://lnkd.in/eR-K_PP5)
– Career advice: just doing me (https://lnkd.in/eZ4h9J_k)
– Living through times of change with Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (https://lnkd.in/eScykmwB), Alphonse Mucha’s the Abolition of Serfdom (https://lnkd.in/enFq-d6A) and Milorad Pavic’s Dictionary of Khazars (https://lnkd.in/eV2gFjF3)
– Misconceptions about social mobility (https://lnkd.in/eapyBuJd)

Music: unlike most genres, hip hop is often about money. Last August, I already explored their views about tax (https://lnkd.in/eG-75VEAhttps://lnkd.in/eG-75VEA). This month, I’ve strung together a series of tracks of hip hop business advice (https://lnkd.in/erxExztX). While you listen to all this, you can pretend that this is all really about the complicated tax analysis or spreadsheet you’re working on.

First off, Cash Rules Everything Around Me (Wu Tang Clan), which means all they ever wanted was your Bank Rolls (Tate Kobang). It’s about Cash In Cash Out (Pharell Williams), a Paperwork Party (Babyface Ray), becoming an LLC (Money Man), ensuring you Get Paid (Double S) and Paid In Full (Eric B. & Rakin). Put differently: if it don’t make Dollaz, it don’t make Sense (DJ Quik). So, just be Top Billin (Audio Two), Rake It Up (Yo Gotti) and Spend Sum Cash (LightSkinKeisha). By then, you can do a Takeover (Jay-Z) which is a Fair Trade (Drake) only if it’s on My Terms (DaniLeigh). In the end, you get a Whole Lotta Money (BIA), even if Money Ain’t A Thang (Jermaine Dupri).

So, in short: hip hop means business.

Obvious disclaimers: this is not advice. These views are my own and do not necessarily represent my employer.

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