There is a certain ambivalence which is present in a lot of businesses. On the one hand, everybody wants to make a lot of money, and show the world how successful they can be. But on the other hand, nobody likes paying the exorbitant taxes that such a situation is inevitably going to create for them. In situations such as that, you might actually want to do everything that you can minimize the taxes that you are going to have to pay. Really, these are both winning scenarios, so it is not about winning versus losing. But you are going to have to decide which way you want to win, since they are both mutually exclusive of one another.
On the one hand, you do want to profit. You have done a lot of work to make sure that your business does things well, and your reward is to see it raking in the cash and spending it very effectively. But of course, Uncle Sam is going to want to take his pound of flesh out of your newly acquired largesse. So when you draw your profit, you will have to decide where it is going to go. It can go into a dividend, into paying your people a bonus of some sort, into investing in your business’s growth… or it can be poured into the giant rat hole that is our federal government’s coffers.
Of course, you can always take your profit, and proudly pay a decent amount of it to Uncle Sam when he asks. It is your civic duty, after all. And how much extra stuff do you really need for your business to grow larger and stronger? Sooner or later, you are going to pay some taxes on the money you have made. It might as well be now, when you know that times are okay, instead of waiting until later.