Capital Gains

The Case for the Buffett Rule: Fairness for the Taxpayer

Jimmy Dahroug | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Taxes, Warren Buffett, Millionaires Tax, Buffett Rule, Capital Gains, Capital Gains Taxes, Politics News

Is it too much to ask that people making over one million dollars in annual income pay a tax rate comparable to middle income Americans? Why is there one set of rules for millionaires and a different set of rules for the rest of us?

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Tax Breaks Now Roughly Same Size As Federal Budget Deficit

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Capital Gains Tax, Taxes, Video, Social Security, Capital Gains Taxes, Mitt Romney, Tax Cuts, Medicare, Capital Gains, Tax Breaks, Tax Code, Business News

Take all the tax breaks in the U.S. tax code and put them together. You'll find that they add up -- and up and up. That's the conclusion of a re...

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Taxes "On Sale"

David Shucavage | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Taxes, Dividend Stocks, Capital Gains, Tax Rates, Bush Tax Cuts, Portfolio Advice, Stocks, Money News

It's very hard to predict what will happen at the end of an election year. Even so, it is unlikely taxes will be lower in the future, so you may just decide to play it safe and sell now. Either way, you want to be prepared.

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Turns Out Recovery Is For The Rich

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Income Gap, Recovery, Earning Gap, Income Inequality, Top 1 Percent, Recession, Barack Obama, Wealth Gap, 99 Percent, Video, Income Growth, Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, Economic Recovery, Capital Gains, Economic Growth, Business News

Technically, the economy has been in recovery for two years. But it turns out the rich have been doing most of the recovering. In 2010 -- the first...

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Romney-Style Tax Breaks Scrutinized In Europe

The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Capital Gains, Wall Street, Private Equity, Finance, Financial Reform, Business News

With each passing day comes new evidence that the world is starting to shine a bright light on how the private equity industry does its business. The...

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Lobbyists Love Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: 2012 Elections, Lobbying, Carried Interest, Lobbyists, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich for President, Campaign Finance, Video, Newt Gingrich 2012, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney Lobbyists, Mitt Romney 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Capital Gains, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum for President, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a Jan. 23 debate in Tampa, Fla., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney directed a pointed attack at former Speaker of the House Newt ...

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More Than Half Of Americans Say Tax Capital Gains Like Work: Survey

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney Tax Rate, Video, Mitt Romney Taxes, Income Taxes, Capital Gains Taxes, Taxes on Investments, Warren Buffett, Mitt Romney Tax Returns, Capital Gains, Buffett Rule, Business News

Most Americans agree: The U.S. should alter the rules that allowed Mitt Romney to pay taxes at a lower rate than someone in the middle class. Sligh...

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Think Again: "As Ronald Reagan Said... Oh Never Mind"

Eric Alterman | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Tax Reform Act of 1986, Irs, Ronald Reagan, Capital Gains Taxes, Paul Krugman, Capital Gains, Reaganism, Reaganomics, Media News

Conservative media outlets are falling all over themselves looking for the "true" heir to Ronald Reagan. Thing is, Ronald Reagan actually raised capital-gains taxes.

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Mitt Romney Says His Tax Rate Is Higher Than 15 Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney Tax Rate, Taxes, Income Tax, Video, Mitt Romney Taxes, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Capital Gains, Newt Gingrich, Buffet Rule, State of the Union, Barack Obama, 15 Percent, Warren Buffet, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney has begun to make the case that he pays more than 15 percent in taxes. "The tax rate is really closer to 45 or 50 percen...

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Two Million Reasons To Start (Or Invest In) A Company Today

Jason Finger | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Taxes, Small Business, Small Business Jobs Act, Capital Gains Taxes, Small Business Investing, Venture Capital, Small Business America, Investing, Startup Investing, Capital Gains, Entrepreneurship, US Tax Code, Entrepreneur, Tax Code, Small Business News

Get off of the fence and start (or invest in) a business, because if someone invests in a qualified small business between now and the end of this year and holds that stock for 5 years and sells it, any gain is TAX FREE.

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Very Small Percentage Of Americans Netting Most Of Capital Gains

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: The One Percent, One Percent, Taxing the Rich, Capital Gains Taxes, Business News, Warren Buffett, Capital Gains, Millionaires Tax, Video, Business News

As large as the income gap between rich and everyone else is today, one area of the economy has an even wider gulf to bridge. The top 0.1 percent ...

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Taxing Capital Gains at Ordinary Rates: Evidence Says Do It... So Does Buffett

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Taxes, Warren Buffett, Capital Gains Taxes, Capital Gains, US Economy, Business News

Why not tax capital gains as ordinary income? That's an old chestnut among those of us who believe that the differential between tax rates on different types of income causes more harm than good.

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Why Liberals Should Learn to Love the Debt Debate

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Capital Gains, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Debt Ceiling Tax Increases, Debt Ceiling Tax Cuts, Debt Ceiling Taxes, Tax Increases, Politics News

Democrats have a long way to go. They are nowhere near breaking the bad tax news to lower- and middle-income Americans. But they finally have a president who is trying to restore the value proposition that lies at the heart of progressive governance.

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Sen. Mark Warner Receives Big Contributions From JPMorgan During Deficit Talks

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Debt, Deficit, JPMorgan Chase, Carried Interest, Mark Warner, 112th Congress, Gang of Six, Capital Gains, Deficit Commission, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- During the first three months of 2011 employees of JPMorgan Chase piled in campaign contributions to the campaign committee of Sen. Mark...

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To Owe or Be Owned -- Depends on How You Tax It

Ruud de Mooij | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Tax Incentives, Debt Bias, Corporate Profits, Financial Crises, Equity, Investment, Tax Avoidance, Interest Deductiblity, Corporate Income Tax, Tax Deduction, Capital Gains, Dividends, Debt Finance, Leverage, Business News

The corporate tax code in the US creates a significant bias toward debt finance over equity. However we have come to realize that excessive debt is much more costly than we have always thought.

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Foundations, Insiders and IPOs: Back Door Influence and Abuse

Vivian Norris | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Ipos, Research Subsidies, Hedge Funds, Non-Profits, Medical School, Capital Gains, Political Influence, Biotech, Tax Evasion, Giving, Offshore, Wealth Gap, Foundations, Business News

The wasteful, immoral use of "nonprofit" foundations as ways to funnel monies, evade taxes and influence politics not just at home but abroad, needs to be investigated.

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Explaining Taxes

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.19.2011

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The concept of taxes, of course, is pretty easy to explain. Except when you look at it too closely.

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IRS Drastically Increases Its Audits Of America's Richest Taxpayers

The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Rax Evasion, Irs, Internal Revenue Service, Richest Americans, Swiss Banks, Global High Wealth Industry, Capital Gains, Criminal Investigations, Business News

In 2009, the Internal Revenue Service announced plans to unleash a new enforcement unit called the Global High Wealth Industry, the goal being to bett...

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New Tax Cut Package: See The Bill's Biggest Cuts

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage Penalty Relief, Biggest Tax Breaks, Middle Class Tax Cuts, Child Tax Credit, Capital Gains, Obama Tax Cuts 2010, Obama Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts 2011, Dividend Taxes, Tax Code, Tax Cut Package, Business News

Highlights of the tax package passed by Congress late Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama. It would cost about $858 billion; most provisions, ...

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When Hedge Fund Managers Talk, Andrew Ross Sorkin Transcribes, Uncritically

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Cdos, Obama Wall Street, Barack Obama, Dan Loeb, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Daniel Loeb, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Managers, Business News, Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Sec, Capital Gains, Constitution, Third Point, Business News

You can't buy the kind of free publicity extended by today's New York Times, which quotes extensively from Daniel Loeb's political rant in, "Why Wall St. Is Deserting Obama," a 1,200-word piece devoid of critical analysis.

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Charlie, What's It Like Inside the Club?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Corruption, Congress, Capital Gains Taxes, Charles Rangel, Financial Reform, Capitalism, Charlie Rangel, New York, New York City, Fraud, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Managers, Financial Crisis, Capital Gains, Politics News

The world is full of clubs. Two countries have about 95% of the estimated nuclear weapons in the small club of nuclear countries. The world's four wealthiest countries have about half the global economy.

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Tax Tricks: Is Corporate Income Taxed Twice?

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservatives claim that income from corporate dividends is "taxed twice" -- first when the corporation pays its taxes (if it does pay taxes), and the...

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Unintended Consequences of the Enterprise Value Tax

Alan Patricof | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Capital Gains Taxes, Tax Cuts, Enterprise Value Tax, Value-Added-Tax, Capital Gains, Business News

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive and has no justification in the tax code. Its unintended consequences will affect millions of well-meaning people.

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Closing Tax Loopholes for Billionaires

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Paul Allen, Tax Loopholes, Tax Evaders, Capital Gains, Billionaires, Tax Evasion, Private Equity Funds, Henry Kravis, Business News

Call me old fashioned but I just think it's wrong that a single hedge fund manager earns a billion dollars, when a billion dollars would pay the salaries of about 20,000 teachers.

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Carried Interest Tax Break Costs The Government Billions, Is A Gift To Financiers: The New Yorker

newyorker.com | James Surowiecki | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Capital Gains Tax, James Surowiecki, Irs, Tax Policy, Capital Gains Taxes, Capital Gains, Capital-Gains, Business News

In a typical private-equity fund, the managers get paid two per cent of assets as a regular fee, plus twenty per cent of the fund's profits. They pay ...

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