Yes, the strategy is legitimate for business owners. Hire your child for actual work in a qualifying business (sole prop or parent-only partnership works best), deduct reasonable wages as a business expense, and often skip FICA if under 18. Child’s wages up to ~$15,750 (2025 single std. deduction) usually mean little/no federal income tax owed. They can then fund a custodial Roth IRA with that earned income (limit $7,000 in 2025 / $7,500 in 2026).
Yes, you generally need a business to deduct it—personal payments don’t qualify. The video’s $6k IRA number is outdated. Keep records of work done. Consult a CPA for your situation.
Tax expert says parents can legally pay their child $15,750 tax-free and invest it in a Roth IRA
“If you put your child on payroll, you can pay your child up to $15,750 without your child needing to file a tax return. That's a $15,750 deduction. Then from the $15,750, you could take $6,000 of it and put it into a Roth IRA. Money that neither you nor the parent pays taxes on, and that money is growing tax-free. That should absolutely be the mission for families”
$META is a $2000 stock trading at $600
$TSLA is a $100 stock trading at $420
$SNDK is a $600 stock trading at $1700
$PLTR is a $200 stock trading at $116
$MU is a $500 stock trading at $1000
$AMZN is a $500 stock trading at $240
$NOW is a $300 stock trading at $110
Photonics is backed by actual revenue numbers and it's an architectural shift championed by $NVDA.
Quantum barely has any revenue.
$LITE is completely sold out for the next 2 years (per $POET AGM) likely starting into 2029. Lumentum is so strained that they buy CW lasers off competitors (earnings transcript)
$COHR is bottlenecked, so they buy EML off Lumentum.
Then, $AAOI is coming in with Made-in-America independent CW capacity, are projecting $1.4B/quarterly revenue ending H1 2027 of a stupid $9.3B MC today.
So all the CW capacity from independent players who have it now like $AAOI or $SIVE are likely to become scarce resources.
Many other hyperscalers have already started LTA discussions (per Trendforce). And players like $AMD are currently talking with players such as $AAOI (Rosenblatt channel checks).
Thematically, next 2 years is 9x TAM to US$154B per GS reports, especially with 16x/45x dollar content increase in scale out/scale up.
Then there's the overall thematic AI drop from $META, which is widely misunderstood because people conflate what "excess capacity" means. And as UBS mentioned, Meta planning a cloud offering is NOT NEW NEWS.
Bloomberg just has a tendency to publish information that causes doom drops across the semi sector like Nvidia export controls a few months back.
But I'm familiar with what I'm holding so I'm confident in these numbers playing out.
Especially when all the major players are sold out, the fundamentals catch up eventually.