I love the new high score streak they posted!<p>This article is a bit more fairly balanced about the legality and purpose but it really seems like they should hire some CPAs and tax lawyers themselves because this one misses the mark in a variety of ways:<p>1) the tax deductions taken are not specific to real estate and oil sectors, even if the particular tax payers analyzed used a deduction specific to those sectors to accomplish the same thing<p>2) the depreciation over 10 years is a red herring, they could have deducted the entire value the first year and carried forward the loss against their subsequent years income for practically forever, even longer than the depreciation option<p>3) there are plenty of other ways to do it, but why give these guys ideas? its 1,000% more beneficial to let everyone assume you have no idea what you are talking about, and then let ProPublica leak the techniques two decades later, because you're already on to some other technique by then. Given the clear sentiment that ProPublica's clickbait articles cater to, revealing your hand could result in the tax law changing by a very reactionary Congress who also doesn't have the CPAs and tax lawyers that the taxpayers do, so there is no point in talking about what compliant things you've found.