Engineered Tax Services founder positions private aircraft ownership as a structured financial decision — own the asset, offset the tax — for qualifying buyers facing a meaningful tax event
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Julio Gonzalez, Founder and CEO of Engineered Tax Services, has launched Engineered Jet Tax, a private aviation advisory practice built on the same principle that has guided his firm since 2001: sophisticated tax strategy should not remain inside Fortune 500 planning rooms.
Engineered Jet Tax advises on acquisition, ownership structure, bonus depreciation, charter placement, and ongoing asset management for qualifying buyers. Gonzalez’s brief is direct: own the asset. Offset the tax. Treat aircraft ownership as a financial decision rather than a luxury purchase.
The Thesis Applied
Gonzalez founded Engineered Tax Services so accounting firms could put engineers, tax attorneys, and scientists behind client work that had historically been reserved for the largest companies. Over 25 years the firm has grown to 26 offices and produced more than $2 billion in documented client tax savings across cost segregation, energy incentives, research and development credits, grants, and related engineering-based studies.
Engineered Jet Tax extends that model into private aviation. The practice is designed for founders after a liquidity event, high-income professionals, recipients of large bonuses, and owners sitting on appreciated, taxable gains. Instead of treating a private aircraft solely as a lifestyle purchase, Gonzalez positions ownership as a structured decision that can align with tax planning, asset management, and operational needs.
“Aviation is more than transportation,” Gonzalez has said. “It’s strategy, efficiency, asset optimization, and access.”
The Standard
The integrity rule remains the one Gonzalez has held across ETS: the firm will not recommend a strategy, credit, study, or structure it cannot support with expertise and documentation. Engineered Jet Tax operates as a division of Engineered Advisory and Engineered Tax Services. It does not promise outcomes. It supplies the specialized analysis so qualifying buyers and their advisors can evaluate ownership with the same class of expertise historically available only to the largest operators.
Gonzalez has described the broader mission as tax equality and grant equality — not a guaranteed result, a genuine chance for smaller and mid-sized operators to access tools that were once concentrated among Fortune 500 companies. Engineered Jet Tax is the latest application of that standard.
About Julio Gonzalez
Julio Gonzalez is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Engineered Tax Services and the force behind Engineered Jet Tax, ETS Cares, and Engineered Impact. A national tax reform expert, he advises in Washington and has built his public mission around expanding access to specialized tax strategy.
About Engineered Tax Services
Engineered Tax Services is a national specialty tax, incentives, grants, and government-funding firm headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, with 26 offices and more than $2 billion in documented client tax savings.
Issued by Thrive & Press
Media Contact
Engineered Tax Services
West Palm Beach, Florida
www.engineeredtaxservices.com
