Category: Taxes
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, October 24, 2016
The US Is NOT a Low-Tax Jurisdiction / Politics / Taxes
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : Trump has been running his mouth about how the US is one of the highest-taxed countries in the world. This really makes the journalists upset. They say that it’s false. Every time he says this, they have a conniption.
How can it be true? How can we have higher taxes than Sweden—where taxes are so high that everything is free, there are ponies everywhere, and everyone is happy?
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
Apple Tax Grab by EU Invades IRS Airspace / Politics / Taxes
By: John_Browne
On August 30th, the European Union (EU) Commission ordered the Irish government to reclaim some $14.6 billion of so-called back taxes plus interest from Apple Inc. The order challenged sovereign tax authority within the EU and well-established international tax rules. The aggressive stance of the Commission set off a furor of high level political argument among taxing authorities and multinational companies accustomed to complex but legal international tax planning. Apple's case was big enough to place it at center stage in a simmering problem for governments in striking a balance between attracting businesses, creating jobs, generating taxes and deciding precisely what type of earnings can be taxed.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Offshore Shakedown: FATCA, The Panama Papers and Why You Need a Self-Directed IRA / Politics / Taxes
By: Jeff_Berwick
I recently sat down for an interview with TDV Offshore‘s Managing Director Paul Seymour to discuss the worsening worldwide situation for financial privacy and economic survival. Topics included the Panama Papers, precious metals, self-directed IRAs, 401Ks, The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) , offshore bank accounts, offshore corporations and Paul’s belief that a financial catastrophe may loom as soon as October 2016.
Friday, June 03, 2016
Happy Tax Freedom Day! Video / Personal_Finance / Taxes
By: Mario_Innecco
happy tax freedom day to all my viewers in the UK it's Friday jun 3rd 2016 and
yeah what is tax freedom day
well according to the adam smith institute they calculate tax freedom day
and basically it's the day tax rate and a is a measure of when Britain's stop
paying tax and putting their earnings into their own pocket
so into 2016 according to the adam smith institute every penny the average person
earned for working up to and including jun 2nd went to the tax men
jun 3rd from june third onwards
they're paying themselves so what this means is that is that this year the
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborn gobbled up the first hundred
fifty four days of our earnings from every source so
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
This is the Era of the Democrats and Your Taxes are Going Up / ElectionOracle / Taxes
By: Harry_Dent
If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clinch their party’s nominations, Americans will have to pick between the two most hated candidates for the presidency in history.
Hillary has an unfavorable rating of 56%. Not much better than Trump at 64%.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Another Record Collection from Federal Taxes / Politics / Taxes
By: BATR
There is not a single American alive that has a recollection of a time without a Federal Income Tax. Yet, the country existed and prospered greatly before the constitution was perverted to fleece the pockets of Americans. As with most deceptive schemes to defraud, the sales pitch seldom resembles the reality of the final outcome. The fact that the excessive growth, reach and scope of the District of Criminals government has developed into an oppressive empire during this time, is no accident.
Monday, April 18, 2016
The Oppressed U.S. Taxpayer, A Morally Sound Tax Reform Proposal / Politics / Taxes
By: Antonius_Aquinas
This year, Americans’ day of tribute to their federal overlords falls on April 18. As calculated by the Tax Foundation, the average American will work from January 1 to April 24 (Tax Freedom Day) to pay his share of taxes to all levels of government with some $3.3 trillion to be forked over to the federal government and $1.6 trillion to state and local jurisdictions.*
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Friday, April 15, 2016
How Elites Justify Global Taxation - Anatomy of a Jubilee Psyop / Politics / Taxes
By: Jeff_Berwick
In this article I will explain how the Panama Papers leak, an appearance by Alan Greenspan on national television and a Spring Meeting (of the IMF and World Bank down in Washington DC) create an argument for global taxation.
It’s not something I intended to write about, but the pieces fell into place yesterday and provide us with an object lesson about the way the world works. Actually, I’m writing this on April 14, a very timely tax extortion day for Americans.
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Saturday, February 06, 2016
The End of Tax Havens? / Politics / Taxes
By: Casey_Research
By Jeff Thomas
The image above is of a World War II German Panzer tank. So, what does that have to do with tax havens? I’ll get to that soon.
But first, let’s look at the Isle of Jersey, one of the islands in the English Channel. Most people think of it as a British tax haven, but it’s not, strictly speaking, a part of the UK and not a member of the EU. It’s a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy and has its own legal, judicial, and, most importantly, financial systems. For decades, it’s been a choice location for those who seek to avoid taxation.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Financial Repression Authority Predicts Massive Tax Grab Coming in 2016 at All Levels of Government / Politics / Taxes
By: Gordon_T_Long
A Massive 'Tax Grab' Must Now Be Expected
The Financial Repression Authority sees the massive government tax grab already quietly underway accelerating in 2016 in most of the developed economies.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
U.S. Taxes - How I Beat the IRS / Personal_Finance / Taxes
By: Rodney_Johnson
A month ago I got a love letter from the IRS. Well, it didn’t exactly express emotion, but it definitely made clear they wanted to see me, and soon.I was being audited.
The tax year in question was 2013, and they wanted to focus on K-1’s, basis for stock transactions, charitable contributions, and health insurance payments. I did what anyone would do. I called my accountant.
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Friday, November 20, 2015
A Secret New Government Tax -- Unveiled / Companies / Taxes
By: EWI
Dear Investor,
Did you know for one major financial sector the Great Recession never ended?
One look at this chart of the KBW Bank Index and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, and you can see it for yourself:
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Friday, October 16, 2015
The Most Important Thing in the World / Stock-Markets / Taxes
By: John_Mauldin
By Jared Dillian
As I write this, I am watching the Mets play the Dodgers and not watching the Democratic debate. I can catch the highlights on Twitter. I am half expecting someone to propose a tax rate of over 100%.
Something I’m sure will be suggested at some point is a financial transactions tax, a tiny tax placed on every single financial transaction: stocks, bonds, and derivatives.
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Friday, September 11, 2015
Here's Everything Wrong with Jeb Bush's Tax Reform Plan / Politics / Taxes
By: ...
MoneyMorning.com Michael E. Lewitt writes: Like much of his campaign, Jeb Bush's tax reform plan is "weak tea."
Bush proposes to reduce tax rates, which is a good thing. But he just doesn't go far enough.
Rather than a bold program to radically reshape the unproductive U.S. tax code, Bush does not go far enough to rewrite the DNA of the U.S. economy.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
How to Preserve Your Family’s Wealth / Personal_Finance / Taxes
By: Investment_U
I remember the scene well. It was the middle of drizzly, cool morning when the hum of the floatplane’s engine echoed through the mountains. The plane circled overhead once and landed on the strip of saltwater in front of us.
Friday, June 19, 2015
Tax Havens the Worlds Last Economic Alamo / Personal_Finance / Taxes
By: Casey_Research
Jeff Thomas writes: “And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.” – Luke 2:1, New Testament
“Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.” – Ron Holland
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
The Police State and Property Taxes… What You Can Do About It / Politics / Taxes
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno
A police officer pulled over Floyd Dent for a routine traffic stop.
A violent altercation followed.
The officer dragged Dent out of his car, appeared to put him in a chokehold, and punched him in the head. He then used his stun gun.
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Saturday, June 06, 2015
How Governments Keep You and Your Money From Leaving / Politics / Taxes
By: MISES
Ryan W. McMaken writes: The IRS reports that more people renounced their US citizenship during the first quarter of 2015 than during any other quarter in history. Notably, a sizable portion of those renouncing their citizenship are doing so to escape heavy taxation. The United States one of only a handful of OECD nations that imposes a "worldwide" tax on its citizens and residents-- and is the only country other than the military dictatorship of Eritrea that taxes its citizens living abroad on literally all forms of income.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Is It Illegal To Not Pay Taxes? / Politics / Taxes
By: Jeff_Berwick
Human beings have a major cognitive dissonance problem when it comes to taxes. For some reason they don't see it as an armed extortion racket. Some even think it is "voluntary"... but as we'll show, it is far from voluntary.
Some people may fail to file taxes for numerous reasons, like personal or business problems, feelings of hopelessness or fear due to the burdensome tax process, anti-theft sentiments, or beliefs that the penalty won’t be worse than the expense and trouble of filing.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Those Gruelling U.S. Tax Rates: A Global Perspective / Politics / Taxes
By: Steve_H_Hanke
The Tax Foundation released its inaugural “International Tax Competitiveness Index” (ITCI) on September 15th, 2014. The United States was ranked an abysmal 32nd out of the 34 OECD member countries for the year 2014. (See accompanying Table 1.) The European welfare states such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with their large social welfare systems, still managed to have less burdensome tax systems on local businesses than the U.S. The U.S. is even ranked below Italy, the country that has had such a pervasive problem with tax evasion that the head of its Agency of Revenue (roughly equivalent to the Internal Revenue Service in the United States) recently joked that Italians don’t pay taxes because they were Catholic and hence were used to “gaining absolution.” In fact, according to the ranking, only France and Portugal have the dubious honor of operating less competitive tax systems than the United States.