Laws has previously been sceptical
about wealth taxes but - if reporter Robert Watts is correct - the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury has decided that the greater evil is leaving low earners to struggle on through one of the nastiest income squeezes of modern times.
«Tim Montgomerie is wrong
about wealth taxes, but so are his critics Main Why do politicians make bad decisions?»
Not exact matches
Joan Crain,
wealth strategist at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, outlines what you need to know about the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (F
wealth strategist at BNY Mellon
Wealth Management, outlines what you need to know about the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (F
Wealth Management, outlines what you need to know
about the Foreign Account
Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
Tax experts say the feet - high stack of returns that he's posed with for photos could provide significant insights about the presumptive GOP nominee — new details on his income and wealth, how much he gives to charity, the health of his businesses and, overall, how Trump plays the tax ga
Tax experts say the feet - high stack of returns that he's posed with for photos could provide significant insights
about the presumptive GOP nominee — new details on his income and
wealth, how much he gives to charity, the health of his businesses and, overall, how Trump plays the
tax ga
tax game.
I recently attended a
wealth expo recently where
about 3,000 of the 6,000 attendees couldn't jump from their chairs fast enough when presented the opportunity to invest in insanely risky investments like
tax liens.
What
about substantial
wealth excluding houses, cars, furniture, jewelry... actual investment portfolios stuffed with cash, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate investment trusts, master limited partnerships,
tax - lien certificates, or any of the other numerous securities one can own to compound capital?
He noted that the firm operated with a higher
tax rate than some peers — it had got more US - centric over time rather than less, largely because of its presence in
wealth management, which he reckoned was now
about 98 % US - focused after the firm sold its European business in 2013.
She hosts workshops and speaks at conferences for women
about investing, building
wealth, and saving on
taxes.
One would hardly realize that the problem facing U.S. industrial employment is that wage earners must earn enough to pay for the most expensive housing in the world (the FDIC is trying to limit mortgages to absorb just 32 per cent of the borrower's budget), the most expensive medical care and Social Security in the world (12.4 per cent FICA withholding), high personal debt levels owed to banks and rapacious credit - card companies (
about 15 per cent) and a
tax shift off property and the higher
wealth brackets onto labor income and consumer goods (another 15 per cent or so).
What conservatives and libertarians are most animated
about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to
tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on
wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.
Similarly, they fantasize
about taking in more revenue from the rich by increasing the
tax rates on
wealth.
The god we read
about in the Bible tells us to obey the government no matter what, and pay our
taxes so our armies can go steal the oil and
wealth of other countries, and imprison innocent people.
As the calls for Mitt Romney to release his
tax returns grow louder, and concerns
about his undisclosed millions in offshore accounts increase, I wonder how the presumptive Republican nominee reconciles his great, secret stores of
wealth with the principles of his Mormon faith.
There's nothing we can do
about that of course — it's just the nature of the beast — but it's interesting to note that FFP doesn't factor in clear regional differences of
wealth in each country nor does it factor in the differing
tax laws of each country.
After you hit the threshold that society deems large enough that you won't be caring much
about your expenses, the excess money gets
taxed significantly so as to level the playing field - which is good, one could argue, else
wealth would become ever more concentrated in the same families» hands.
I'm talking
about policies that allow for
tax dodging and
tax havens: great for those with
wealth to protect, not good for people reliant on
taxes to pay for their schools and medicines.
Recent policy debate on the mansion
tax, and a «temporary
wealth tax» also suggests that this is an opportune time to consider
wealth inequalities and what might be done
about them.
We need to talk
about tax fairness — especially when we know that 90 % of beneifit of Rump
tax changes when to high
wealth folks.
«Meanwhile, politicians talk of
taxing «
wealth» more because of what that would «say»
about their party, not whether it is the right or wrong thing to do.»
Now that we have moved on from New Labour, hopefully David Mili and the other leadership contenders can finally grasp the bull by the horns and talk
about a society where
wealth tax is not punitive but good citizenship.
Obama was never shy
about his plan to raise
taxes on households and businesses earning more than $ 250,000 a year — which John McCain called a socialist «redistribution of the
wealth.»
«The 50p rate is not a step forward... If we are serious
about dealing with inequalities, we are much better dealing with unproductive
wealth in the form of extreme property and the mansion
tax on property over # 2 million is the best way to do that,» he added.
The Greens make no bones
about who will pay for it — they will introduce a 2 %
wealth tax on the top 1 %; a Robin Hood
tax on financial transactions; increase corporation
tax from 20 % to 30 %; increase fuel duty on aviation; impose an additional 60 % top rate income
tax band and a plethora of other measures.
And there's another Lib Dem - related story that CCHQ has set
about exploiting today: the Mail on Sunday splash
about Team Clegg's plans to extend
wealth taxes into your jewellery box.
Politicians give lip service to
tax reform because we talk
about it, but they will not produce any substantial reform because it works for them, it is doing just what they want it to do - redistributing
wealth from the silent mass in the middle to the publicly noisy poor and the privately powerful rich.
@user4012 The first line of my answer is
about income
tax and explains why we don't base income
tax on
wealth.
Why doesn't Gov. Cuomo talk more
about the hugh income and
wealth gap in the state; more
about having the wealthy pay their fair share; talking
about the hugh bonuses and salaries on Wall Street; and the already existing stock transfer
tax (16 - 18 billion revenue)?
There was never any doubt
about the approval of the overall package, which marks a shift from income
tax to
wealth and green
taxes.
Lib Dems are bullish
about their chances of securing some form of
wealth tax because they will link this to the welfare cuts.
Conservatives don't always agree
about raising new
wealth and property
taxes, but tend to do so
about cutting the rate at which public spending is rising further.
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Thanks for sharing this
wealth of information
about tax preparation.
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Unfortunately, for all of the noise Prof. Greene makes
about proper academic standards, he simply stoops to waving the red flag of anti-communism when he concludes by suggesting that our assertion, «the only reason the superrich have these massive billions, and hence a major voice in policy, is because of unfair
tax laws that allow them to keep the vast
wealth their employees have created,» reveals us as, uh oh, Marxists!
Therefore, financial literacy lessons that centre upon personal
wealth accumulation (such as superannuation, investment portfolios or
tax avoidance) are unlikely to resonate as much as lessons
about families and communities becoming happier and healthier through financial wellbeing.
The
wealth of information that Chetty et al. have
about families from
tax records and some clever analyses effectively rule out the possibility that conventional estimates of value - added based only on school administrative data are misleading.
The contemporary debates
about equity and sharing of property
tax revenue often overlook the fact that wealthy districts in most cases did not create their own
wealth.
Agreed, part of that problem is related to the legislatures own hesitance in trying to counter the constant deluge of misinformation
about taxes, income inequality, education, and social serves that emerges from right wing think [sic] tanks, talk radio, most of the «punditry,» and the neo-liberal water - carriers of the malefactors of great
wealth.
While middle - class Canadians may be worried
about mortgage rates, land - transfer
taxes and rising home prices, luxury home buyers are more concerned
about safe investment environments and ways to maintain or create more
wealth.
Or has she been unable to explain it in a way that would get her clients excited
about writing a big
tax check today when the likely result is significantly greater after -
tax wealth in the future?
Only
about four per cent of seniors at age 65 face OAS clawbacks, says Jamie Golombek, managing director,
tax and estate planning for CIBC
Wealth Advisory Services.
Learn everything you need to know
about how mutual fund distributions are
taxed and how becoming a
tax - efficient investor will help you build
wealth over the long - term.
If you look at the
taxes based on
wealth / networth — then people are paying
about the same percentage of
taxes under our current income - taxation scheme.
Good luck on your adventures, and you can always come back and ask questions
about how to file
taxes, what to do with any new found
wealth, etc!
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Think
about the fact your job, your house, (much of) your
wealth, the level of your
taxes, even your (assumed) social order is already inextricably linked to that currency & country.
Asset location is the decision
about which accounts — RRSP, TFSA, taxable — these asset classes should be located in order to maximize after -
tax wealth.
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