Quit and run the startup on $500k funding — what's the runway?

Quit and run the startup on $500k funding — what's the runway? ends $1.67M behind stay employed, 3% raises, after tax.

• Lifetime tax, in today's dollars: $228,224 less.
• All of it under the assumptions listed below, which the reader can change.

What the tax change is made of

• Federal income tax: −$160,586
• Tax on dividends, interest and portfolio gains: −$67,638

These add back to the total change; they are the same taxes the projection sums into the headline, discounted the same way.

Not financial or tax advice.

What this assumes

Every figure below depends on these. Change one and the answer changes.

Horizon

30 yearsHow many years the projection runs.

Nominal return

5%Assumed annual growth before inflation.

Inflation

2.5%Grows spending, and indexes brackets between published years.

Discount rate

3%Used to present-value lifetime tax — the headline metric.

Future tax law

Current law continuesLeft on current law, the projection assumes today’s brackets last the whole horizon — itself a forecast, not a neutral choice.

Year by year

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