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A working gathering, not a conference.

Tax Retreat is exactly what it sounds like and absolutely nothing like the events the name might suggest. There's no expo hall. There's no lanyard arms race. There are no breakout sessions where the same vendor pitches you for 45 minutes in a different room.

It's a small, deliberately curated gathering of firm owners, operators, founders, and a few of the more honest people in fintech — held somewhere quiet, with the badges left at the door.

It runs at a loss. That's a feature, not a bug.

Because when you stop optimizing an event for revenue, you can finally optimize it for the thing that actually matters: the room. Who's in it. What they say to each other. What they take home.

The economics make sense if you zoom out.

Tax Retreat doesn't pay its own bills. It pays for everything else.

The relationships that come out of it are the relationships that drive every other piece of the business — speaking invites, consulting engagements, fintech advisory work, community membership, and the kind of word-of-mouth credibility that no marketing channel can manufacture.

If you've heard about Tax Retreat from another firm owner, that's the model working.

A short, deliberate guest list.

  • Firm owners ready to talk about the parts they don't talk about anywhere else.
  • Operators inside firms — the people who actually run the place.
  • Fintech founders who want to be in the room rather than on the panel.
  • Industry figures who've earned the right to speak quietly.
// EVENT INFO
TAX RETREAT · ANNUAL
FormatSmall · curated · in-person
AttendeesInvitation-driven
SponsorsCarefully selected
CadenceAnnual
Status● Accepting interest

Want to be in the room?

Tell me a little about who you are and what you're working on. If there's a fit for the next one, I'll reach out.