A BTI Communications Group Whitepaper Blog
The Silent Drain on Your Bottom Line
Every business owner pays it, whether they know it or not: the hidden “crime tax.” It isn’t on your tax bill, but it quietly chips away at profits through theft, fraud, vandalism, and cybercrime. For a $10M business, that’s $100,000+ in annual losses, money that doesn’t build value, it simply disappears.
And the true cost is often higher: downtime, disrupted operations, employee morale, reputation damage, and rising insurance premiums.
Why The Crime Tax is Heavier Than Ever
Most crimes are never solved, and many are never even reported. From property loss and internal theft to sophisticated cyberattacks, businesses absorb the losses and keep moving. But those costs don’t just vanish, they compound.
Violent Crime Funnel
Property Crime Funnel
Employee/Occupational Crime Funnel
Cybercrime Funnel
While violent, property, and occupational crimes drain businesses, cybercrime is often the most devastating because of its scale, cost, and long-term impacts. Most incidents are never reported outside of IT departments, and even fewer are fully investigated or resolved even though not reporting may violate Federal, State, and International laws.
Why Businesses Pay Twice
Businesses lose money directly to theft, vandalism, cybercrime, and fraud. Not all those costs are passed on to consumers but higher wages, recruitment and HR costs, and taxes to cover policing, cleanup, insurance, and courts still must be paid. That means businesses pay for crime twice, once in losses, and again in higher business expenses and taxes.
The BTI Advantage: Double Profits, from Cutting Costs & Cutting Crime Tax
Turn crime prevention into Profit. Most companies fight crime and lost productivity with a patchwork of disconnected vendors: one for IT, another for cameras, another for alarms, another for VoIP, and so on. The result? Higher costs, finger-pointing, and inevitable gaps in communication, contracts, service, and protection.
BTI Communications Group is different. We work with you, piece by piece, to update and integrate the systems your business depends on, IT, cybersecurity, cameras, access control, intrusion alarms, VoIP, contact center, and 24/7 monitoring into an integrated and protected platform. This doesn’t just defer the crime tax, it lowers hard costs and boosts productivity at the same time.
Instead of being haunted by complex systems integration or operational issues that take patchwork vendors time to investigate, collaborate, and answer, the BTI approach offers immediate, budget friendly solutions.
The Double Profit Solution
- Don’t Pay the Crime Tax: Prevent losses before they happen, reduce fraud, cut insurance premiums.
- Integrate & Save: Replace multiple vendors as needed, improving outcomes, lowering service costs, eliminating inefficiencies, and improving productivity.
Hard ROI: Numbers That Matter
- Burglary/theft prevention: $30K–$100K saved per incident.
- Employee fraud detection: $200K+ in annual savings for a $10M business.
- Cyber breach prevention: Avoid an average $9.5M loss.
- Insurance savings: Up to 20% lower premiums.
Soft ROI: Benefits You Feel
- Higher employee morale and productivity.
- Stronger customer trust and loyalty.
- Safer workplace = lower turnover.
- Better community reputation.
Security as a Profit Strategy
Other vendors sell tools. BTI delivers integration.
With BTI, you don’t just react to crime, you prevent it. You don’t just buy security, you invest in integrated systems that lower costs, increase efficiency, and drive profit.
- Stop paying the hidden crime tax.
- Consolidate your technical costs in IT, security, and communications solutions.
- Save internal time and resources and turn protection into profit.
Contact BTI Communications Group today to start a conversation.
Stop Paying the Hidden Crime Tax.
Talk to a BTI expert now and discover how integrated IT & security can double your ROI.
