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    Default 2012 US Federal Budget ... Tax Increases for Everyone

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    (snip)"President Obama released his budget this morning. Rather than focusing on Washington’s over-spending problem, the budget calls for higher taxes on families and small businesses to pay for even more government spending. Under the Obama budget, tax revenues will grow from 14.4% of GDP in 2011 to 20% of GDP in 2021. By comparison, the historical average is only 18% of GDP.

    Tax hike lowlights include:

    •Raising the top marginal income tax rate (at which a majority of small business profits face taxation) from 35% to 39.6%. This is a $709 billion/10 year tax hike [ absent new legislation affects those earning over $171,850 ]

    •Raising the capital gains and dividends rate from 15% to 20% [ absent new legislation affects those earning more than $33,000 ]

    •Raising the death tax rate from 35% to 45% and lowering the death tax exemption amount from $5 million ($10 million for couples) to $3.5 million. This is a $98 billion/ten year tax hike [ affects those with estates valued more than 3.5 million ]

    •Capping the value of itemized deductions at the 28% bracket rate. This will effectively cut tax deductions for mortgage interest, charitable contributions, property taxes, state and local income or sales taxes, out-of-pocket medical expenses, and unreimbursed employee business expenses. A new means-tested phaseout of itemized deductions limits them even more. This is a $321 billion/ten year tax hike. [ absent new legislation affects those earning over $171,850 ]

    •New bank taxes totaling $33 billion over ten years [ affects every 'banking' customer, either saver or borrower ]

    •New international corporate tax hikes totaling $129 billion over ten years [ affects every customer of those corporations' products and services ]

    •New life insurance company taxes totaling $14 billion over ten years [ affects anybody with life insurance coverage ... or their employer ... or both ]

    •Massive new taxes on energy, including LIFO repeal, Superfund, domestic energy manufacturing, and many others totaling $120 billion over ten years [ affects everyone who buys gasoline / natural gas or fuel oil / electricity ] [ also affects anyone who purchases products or services from US companies that must buy gasoline / natural gas or fuel oil / electricity at higher prices ]

    •Increasing unemployment payroll taxes by $15 billion over ten years [ affects every employer ]

    •Taxing management capital gains in an investment partnership (“carried interest”) as ordinary income. This is a tax hike of $15 billion over ten years [ affects those who can afford to purchase said partnerships i.e. the 'rich' ]

    •A giveaway to the trial lawyers—not letting companies deduct the cost of punitive damages from a lawsuit settlement. This is a tax hike of $300 million over ten years [ affects every company thus the customers of company products and services ]

    •Increasing tax penalties, information reporting, and IRS information sharing. This is a ten-year tax hike of $20 billion. [ affects every taxpayer, proportionately more so for those who are self-employed ]

    Add it all together, and this budget is a ten-year, $1.5 trillion tax hike over present law. That’s $1.5 trillion taken out of the economy and spent on government instead of being used to create jobs.

    The “tax relief” in the budget is mostly just an extension of present law, and also some refundable credit outlay spending in the tax code. There is virtually no new tax relief relative to present law in the President’s budget."(snip)


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    Last edited by Melonie; 02-14-2011 at 02:57 PM.

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