Engineered Tax Services Founder Julio Gonzalez Launches Engineered Jet Tax Private Aviation Advisory Division

Julio Gonzalez, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Engineered Tax Services (ETS), has launched Engineered Jet Tax, a private aviation advisory division headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. The division is designed to help qualifying buyers acquire, depreciate, charter, and professionally manage aircraft.

Gonzalez founded ETS in 2001 to bring engineering-led tax strategy to businesses, investors, and family offices. The firm has grown to 26 offices nationwide and claims more than $2 billion in client tax savings through analysis covering cost segregation, research and development credits, energy incentives, and bonus depreciation. Engineered Jet Tax operates within Engineered Advisory and Engineered Tax Services, which serve thousands of CPA and accounting firms across the country.

The new division targets buyers facing significant tax events, including founders following a liquidity sale, high-income professionals, recipients of large bonuses, and owners of appreciated taxable assets. Under current federal law, qualifying new and pre-owned aircraft may be eligible for 100% first-year bonus depreciation when placed in service correctly and used in a qualifying business capacity.

Engineered Jet Tax structures engagements around four steps: acquiring a suitable aircraft, offsetting eligible tax liability through bonus depreciation, generating charter revenue via vetted Part 135 charter management, and professionally managing the asset on an ongoing basis. Under the operating model, the aircraft is placed into a national charter fleet under a triple-net leaseback arrangement, with the operator assuming day-to-day costs while the owner retains the depreciation position over a multi-year term, and charter terms are reviewed periodically against market offers. Gonzalez stated that 100% first-year bonus depreciation is not automatic and depends on individual facts, including a more-than-50-percent qualified-business-use requirement, placed-in-service timing, aircraft type, and ongoing compliance. A $6 million aircraft referenced in company materials is described as an illustrative example of scale and not a guaranteed outcome, and charter revenue, operating costs, and net position vary by airframe and market.

This launch belongs to a broader move by tax-advisory firms to package aircraft ownership as a structured product tied to a specific tax benefit, pairing acquisition guidance with charter placement so the depreciation position and the revenue offset are managed by the same firm instead of separately by a broker, an operator, and an accountant. The advisory model works because bonus depreciation eligibility hinges on facts that unfold after purchase — qualified-business-use share, placed-in-service timing, and how the aircraft is actually operated — so bundling acquisition with charter management is meant to keep those facts on track over the multi-year term the depreciation position requires.

The triple-net leaseback into a national charter fleet is the structural piece worth watching: it shifts day-to-day costs to the operator while the owner keeps the tax position, but charter revenue and net cost still vary by airframe and market, and periodic reviews against market offers suggest terms are not fixed for the life of the arrangement. Whether a given buyer's use pattern clears the more-than-50-percent qualified-business-use threshold, and whether charter demand for their specific aircraft type holds up, will determine if the illustrative $6 million example translates into a comparable real outcome. Buyers considering the division are directed to their own CPA, tax counsel, and legal advisors before any acquisition decision, which is itself a signal that the eligibility determination sits outside what any single advisory relationship can guarantee.