Whatever your opinion of (and tolerance for) local taxation, gazillions of dollars of tax -
free bonds from all over America are backed by general tax revenues.
Not exact matches
But with a miniscule RMB
bond market and plenty of investment quotas and restrictions, the RMB is still far
from free - trading.
Consequently, a tax -
free institution would have needed 4.3 % interest annually
from bond investments over that period to simply maintain its purchasing power.
debt obligations of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various maturities; revenue
from these
bonds is used to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, they are generally considered to be
free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt
from state and local tax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury
bonds, zero - coupon
bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions
Put more tax - efficient investments (low - turnover funds like index funds or ETFs, and municipal
bonds, where interest is typically
free from federal income tax) in taxable accounts.
Although municipal
bond yields are generally lower than taxable
bond fund yields, some investors in higher tax brackets may find they have a higher after - tax yield
from a tax -
free municipal
bond fund investment instead of a taxable
bond fund investment.
The income
from these
bonds is generally
free from federal taxes, although a portion may be subject to state and local taxes, as well as the federal alternative minimum tax (AMT).
If taxable
bond funds or individual
bonds are held in a tax -
free account such as a Roth IRA, then the income
from them would be
free from federal taxes, provided certain requirements are met.
Meanwhile, our Treasury models have become quite favorable, a condition that applies strictly to
bonds that are
free from all default risk.
I guess China's demand for $ denominated
bonds will be replaced by Bitcoins or a new cyber currency created with my
free app which you can download
from the Apple store.
You can not take the deduction when the expenses were paid using certain tax -
free education benefits, such as employer education assistance, tax -
free withdrawals
from a Coverdell Education Savings Account, US savings
bond interest, veterans educational assistance benefits, and certain scholarships.
Other strategies include taking distributions
from retirement plans before 70 1/2 when the taxpayer is in a lower bracket or investing in municipal
bonds in order to receive tax -
free interest income.
But with the 50 - percent allocation in a short - term municipal
bond fund, such as the Near - Term Tax
Free Fund (NEARX), they were around 6 percent short of the full returns
from the S&P exposure, coming in at $ 173,925.
The July 2015 warning about Oppenheimer's
bond funds applies to ALL
bond funds except perhaps short term U.S. Treasury
bond funds, if you can verify that the specific fund you hold is
free from any derivatives exposure — a proposition that is, at best, «iffy.»
And if that weren't enough damage, US T -
Bonds were hammered down -20 %, the price in
free - fall
from 82 to 66... as the then President Jimmy Carter was wringing his hands in his feeble foreign policy confusion and desperation in the White House.
Admittedly, there has been a visible flight
from erstwhile «risk -
free» assets in other areas (such as the Eurozone) to AAA - rated Commonwealth
bonds (see charts below).
One option is to invest in inflation - bearing
bonds and the best part is that you benefit
from tax -
free returns.
Investment to consider: The interest
from municipal
bonds is generally
free from federal taxes and often state taxes as well, depending on your state or where you file — savings that may potentially translate into higher returns.
As you can see
from looking at this last chart, if you can invest across 10,000 independent Lotto Shares, you can effectively turn your Lotto Share investment into a normal government
bond investment — a risk -
free payout.
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Income
from national municipal
bond funds is
free from Federal Taxes, but not state and local taxes.
There are some specialty industries that can range
from the invested with tax -
free mutual
bonds to a specific industry like the gold mutual funds.
Once you know that you can make an informed decision as to whether you will earn a higher return
from a tax
free state or national municipal
bond fund or a taxable
bond fund of a similar credit quality and average maturity (which is generally going to provide higher before tax returns) is going to be better for you.
If you are subject to AMT and want the fund you are investing in to provide income that is
free from AMT, then make sure you are either investing in an AMT
free fund or one that has very little exposure to
bonds which are not AMT
free.
Not all municipal
bond funds invest in
bonds that are
free from the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
Municipal
Bond Funds which are
free from AMT will often have «AMT Free» in the name of the fund, and this information can be found in the fund's prospectus as w
free from AMT will often have «AMT
Free» in the name of the fund, and this information can be found in the fund's prospectus as w
Free» in the name of the fund, and this information can be found in the fund's prospectus as well.
As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain
free from the marriage
bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»
Personally, I believe in higher levels of energy that we attain after we die,
freeing us
from the
bonds of the physical world.
Their is nothing in the bible that small groups of Christians
free from the burdens / bondage of institutional religion are forbidden
from bonding together and going out to minister God's message to the world.
As a follower of Jesus myself, the unceasing desire of my heart is to see people break
free from the
bonds and chains of religion and find freedom in His love.
But even before they had
freed themselves
from the
bonds of English society they had undertaken an «Agreement» in Cambridge, England, the year before and bound themselves to a new covenant with obligations both to God and one another.16 The «Agreement» of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a beginning that contained its own principle, just as, as we have seen, the acts establishing the new republic did.
How can it claim to bridge the divisions in human society — divisions between Greek and barbarian,
bond and
free, between white and black, Aryan and non-Aryan, employer and employed — if, when men are drawn into it, they find that another division has been added to the old ones — a division of Catholic
from Evangelical, or Episcopalian
from Presbyterian or Independent?
It is like a document
from a
free land that announces to us that our
bonds have been broken and we are
free indeed.
Still bound to earth, I refused, O God, to fight on thy side, as much afraid to be
freed from all
bonds, as I ought to have feared being trammeled by them.
If you read Paul's letter to the Galatians, you will find that this early theology of Christianity served to
free us
from the
bonds of «codes» and «laws.»
And when Jesus says: peace, fear not, trust me... It does
free from bonds like nothing else.
On the contrary, the cross-fertilization of cultures which resulted
from his work was the by - product of something else — of his announcement of the establishment through Christ of a new world order in which there was neither Jew nor Greek, barbarian, Scythian,
bond or
free, but all were one in Christ.
Free yourselves
from these
bonds and start identifying yourselves as Americans... We are all Americans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This love must be
free from the personal
bonds of the flesh.
Dr. J. A. Hadfield, one of the most distinguished psychologists of my generation, in an essay on The Mind and the Brain argues on a scientific basis «that in the course of evolution the mind shows an ever - increasing tendency to
free itself
from physical control and, breaking loose
from its
bonds, to assert its independence and live a life undetermined except by the laws of its own nature.»
Yahweh lost his coercive entanglements with national loyalty and racial cult, and in a new liberation, unimaginable had not the expulsion of Christianity
from Judaism taken place, he became a universal God, with no local temple or chosen people to limit him, and with worshipers of all tongues and nations on equal terms — neither Jew nor Greek, neither Scythian, barbarian,
bond nor
free, but one man in Christ.
Al - Mumenoon sura 23: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful The Believers must (eventually) win through (1) Those who humble themselves in their prayers; (2) Who avoid vain talk; (3) Who are active in deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain
from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage
bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are
free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (forever).
«When Nora closes behind her the door of her doll's house, she opens wide the gate of life for women, and proclaims the revolutionary message that only perfect freedom and communion make a true
bond between man and woman, meeting in the open, without lies, without shame,
free from the bondage of duty»
Real contact with Him then, in body and soul, is essential if this work of Christ is to reach into our inner depths and
free us
from the
bonds and disease of sin.
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There are so many benefits to wearing your baby
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NCF's next book was published: The 21 - Day Dad's Challenge, The team also produced two
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You can achieve skin to skin contact, breastfeeding on demand and establish
bonding - all
from the convenient hands -
free use of a baby carrier.
Sharing foibles is «sort of an old - fashioned way of
bonding,» said Lenore Skenazy, the New York - based author of «
Free Range Kids» and its eponymous blog, which promote the idea that kids don't need to be cloistered
from the world by overprotective moms and dads.