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Once you pass around 475k in income in a year the damage is the same spreading it out. Once the phase outs are hit whether it is 500k or 5 million the percentage in tax is the same. The amt killed off large installment payments unless you go out pretty long.
The flip side is if you had plans or investments to make you have to stretch those out too. Look at how installment sales would have bit you . Your rate jumped from what should have been 15% to 24% .
We did an installment deal and got burnt ourselves since rates jumped for the rest of the payments.