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US Federal and California state taxes: phaseout nightmare! citizen_average 04-15-2007
Posted by rlsusenet@NOSPAMPUHLEEZschnapp on April 18, 2007, 2:16 am
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Tom Russ wrote:
> citizen_aver...@yahoo.com wrote:

>> Why don't we have honest tax laws, higher rates reflecting
>> true rates, no phseout gimmicks? At the very margin, my
>> rates due to many phseouts may be well over 50%!

> Probably the main reason is that Congress already tried that
> and people got mad at them. ;)

Actually, I heard an interesting editorial on (of all
places) NPR over the weekend. The point was that we already
have a pretty flat, simple federal tax. It's also the tax
more and more people are loving to hate: It's called AMT!

The suggestion is not to eliminate the AMT, it's to
eliminate everything BUT the AMT, and then adjust the rates
so that the same level of revenue is achieved.

Interesting suggestion.

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Posted by Stuart A. Bronstein on April 19, 2007, 4:30 am
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"rlsusenet@NOSPAMPUHLEEZschnapp.org" wrote:
>
> Actually, I heard an interesting editorial on (of all
> places) NPR over the weekend. The point was that we already
> have a pretty flat, simple federal tax. It's also the tax
> more and more people are loving to hate: It's called AMT!

That'ss my reaction when people talk about a flat tax.

> The suggestion is not to eliminate the AMT, it's to
> eliminate everything BUT the AMT, and then adjust the rates
> so that the same level of revenue is achieved.

To what extent does the AMT have an effect on business
taxes? I'd think that personal taxes are a small part of
the problem, and the complexity and politics of business
taxes is the larger problem.

Stu

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