With this kind of money, you can absolutely get someone to do all the work you need to make your tax mostly disappear. Heck, they probably find your number and call you directly, you would only have to say "Yes, I want to save a couple million dollars".

I'm not saying it's good, but at the moment it's just so easy, risk-free and completely legal.

> With this kind of money, you can absolutely get someone to do all the work you need to make your tax mostly disappear.

Taxes can be deferred or distributed across a number of years with various structures if you’re willing to put that money into a business structure and pay it out to yourself over time (which they absolutely should)

But there is no magic wand someone can wave to get the money into your bank account and make the tax bill disappear without other consequences and/or breaking the law.

Note that in these situations, people absolutely will come out of the woodwork and try to talk you into various schemes to dodge taxes, but that doesn’t mean they’re legal. Plenty of stories about people using dubious structures to avoid taxes and then getting crushed by the IRS when they get around to auditing the situation.

The thing is that this is the first time they got this kind of money. And it was unexpected, since Dwarf Fortress sold their 8 month objective by the second week. So they weren't in a position of knowing who and how to call that someone.