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There is some good news for exPats in the recent tax changes.
Friday, September 03, 2010 (8 reads)


Buried in the depths of two recently passed acts of Congress with pleasant sounding names that bear vague resemblance to the legislative intent are a few things that are actually good for those of us who live outside the USA .

I’ll share some of the good news and the bad news that come out of these two major legislation actions that have substantial tax code modifications imbedded in them.  These tax law changes were included specifically to look like they were incorporating a means to pay for the benefits that the proponents of the legislation were boasting about.  



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Investors will pay a huge price for the Health Care Reforms
Monday, April 05, 2010 (354 reads)


You may have been wondering how the US government planned to pay for all those new users of government mandated medical ‘protection’ – well, here’s the bad news:  There will be a 3.8% tax on net investment income beginning in 2013.

 

Today successful retirees will need to completely rethink their budgets and allocations of income sources if possible.   Previously, all you needed to consider were the marginal income tax rates to determine what you could net from an investment.  Now, deduct another 4% from what will be available.



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Year-end tax planning alert
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 (622 reads)


“The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.” So affirmed the US Supreme Court in Gregory v Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935).  Despite many attempts by administrations of both parties over the intervening 75 years to characterize efforts of taxpayers to minimize their liability to the US Treasury as either unpatriotic at the least or criminal at worst, the rule of law still holds.  Tax evasion is illegal, and efforts to conceal assets and refuse to file returns and pay legally due taxes will result in fines, penalties and sometimes incarceration.  However, tax avoidance is simply using the existing rules to minimize the contribution to the tax collector and it is proper and appropriate behavior, long supported by the courts.



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