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Tax Ideas Submitted by the Public
| Row number | Name | Organization | Type of Organization | Comment | Attachment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 351 | Steve Wells | Southern Pipe and Supply Co. Inc. | Individual | Repeal the Income Tax and adopt the Fair Tax. | |
| 352 | Stormy Mongiello | The Inn of the Patriots Bed and Breakfast | Business | I feel anything we can do to move towards a flat tax or at least a more simplified tax code. Something as simple as staggered due dates for filing, giving everyone a bigger standard deduction rather than so many different rules and exceptions. Fewer tax brackets. | |
| 353 | Susan Gustafson | Princess House, Inc | Business | My company is in the direct selling industry. I have always thaough that independant contractors as well as business, no matter what business should pay some taxes based on their revenue, not a huge % but something. I say this bacause many businesses have write-off's and some pay no taxes at all. We should all pay something, even if we have a loss. I realized business are struggling but this has been the status quo for decades. | |
| 354 | Suzanne Nelson | private citizen | Individual | Mr. President: Please consider implementing the "Fair Tax" program. At least, read the book. Under this plan, there are no losers!! Thank you.l | |
| 355 | Suzanne Ray | n/a | Individual | Please consider: Creating a special deduction for losses incurred while selling a house post-bubble. this would do a lot for the "common folk" who have pretty much been had by those with money and opportunity. just as we are taxed on the upside, we could use a ONE-TIME benefit on the downside as this was a bubble of historic dimension. what a boost in the arm and psyche this would be! i would include reasonable restrictions such as : only one use per family upon sale of a home, an automatic expiration on this (say 5-7 years or so or when prices have bounced back to a certain level), perhaps taking a percentage of the total assessed loss as a one-time deduction, linking the deduction to the recovery of housing (e.g, this can only be used if the loss on a home is over a certain percent of "bubble" value). etc. thanks! i realize this would result in quite a bit of lost tax revenue, but surely this would help the middle class taxpayer! huge points for the wonks and politicos who can this going. | |
| 356 | tasha | personal opinion | Individual | I think instead of constantly uping taxes, the welfare and unemployment systems need to be relooked at. From my point of view if people want help, they should have to work for it, if they did the states wouldn't be hurting so much. It would cut state costsand city costs, by having people getting help mowing highways, or other simple things that are costing over $10 an hour for someone else to do. Please consider these options, it was what was intended when they first came about, and it should be the same way now. | |
| 357 | ted | none | Individual | true reform and change would be to go to the 'Fair Tax' | |
| 358 | Ted Baehr | Retired | Individual | Kill "to big to fail" with progressive corporate income tax rates. Go back to the preRegan tax rates for individuals. Put back the tax on dividend income. Limit interest expense deduction for individuals to the minimun wage. Provide tax credit for entire maternity cost. Provide NOL carry forward for entire cost of medical education. Disallow charitable contributions for portion leaving the usa when spent. | |
| 359 | Terence Dwyer | Me | Individual | Please pass on my compliments to Professor Feldstein (one of my former professors at Harvard) and let me remind him of his article that taxes on land values are better than neutral. In the meantime, I draw the Board's attention to the diplomatic disruption being caused by the aggression of the IRS towards foreign countries and enclose a copy of a demarche from His Grace, the Duke of Grand Fenwick which may have escaped notice. As Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Henry George and many others have recognized there only 3 factors of production you may tax - land, labour or capital. Only one does not stop breeding or working or does not flee or shrivel up in response to a tax. The US Internal Revenue Service and other G20 tax authorities do not have to become some sort of international tax Gestapo to collect ample revenues from the lands they sit upon. With best wishes Your sincerely Terry Dwyer | http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/formsubmissions/109/ed2a0ecf35d441658093120f082a75e2.pdf |
| 360 | Teresa Guerard | None | Individual | There's no need to look far... the fair tax has already been created by knowledgable economists with no political agenda, and it's already in the House and Senate, who don't you just examine it, and if you do a fair, un-politically-biased study, you will find it will solve many of our current economic problems and as a side benefit, make whoever passes it, hugely popular. | |
| 361 | Terri Abraham | What do you mean - self -employed business owner | Individual | We should abolish federal income tax and establish a national sales tax whose rate can only be increased by a national election. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial salary or benefit changes must also be approved in a national general election. Then you guys could be paid based on your performance, too! | |
| 362 | Theodore Seto | Loyola Law School Los Angeles | Non-profit Organization | Amend Code sec. 132(d) to limit the "working condition fringe" exclusion with respect to the following four categories of what would otherwise be working condition fringes: travel, meals, lodging, entertainment. Start by limiting the exclusion to, say, $100,000 per employee (for an employee who's on the road 200 days per year, that's $500 per day). Each employer would need to report the amount of special category working condition fringes excluded, so as to prevent circumvention by having multiple employers provide apparently excludible working condition fringes to a single person. The purpose would be to limit the conversion of nondeductible/includible consumption expenses to deductible/excludible business expenses by highly compensated executives and/or owners. My suspicion is that most of Rubert Murdoch's living expenses are paid for by his businesses on an excludible basis, using Code sec. 132(d). The cap would have the collateral benefit of eliminating tax subsidies for private jet travel; executives requiring private jet travel would have to arrange for a gross-up to pay the relevant taxes. An exemption would be necessary for special category working condition fringes provided by the U.S. government to deal with problems created by its application to the military, President, etc. | |
| 363 | Theresa DiStefano | Individual | Individual | Be a president who will be remembered as a man who really cared for the American people and endoresed what he promised - CHANGE. I respectfully ask you President Obama endorse FAIR TAX Reform . | |
| 364 | Theresa Duperon | permanently disabled attorney | Individual | Tax individuals and corporations with incomes at and over $1 million dollars per year, 75%. | |
| 365 | thomas Feraios | citizen | Individual | This time I will solve the social security crisis AND prevent republicans from EVER using the social security revenue from the masses to give the upper income a tax break. We have been the victims of reverse robinhoodism and all our attempts to put fairness into the system are labasted by the special interests as socialism. Social Security is a productive tax for the government because it starts with the first dollar earned so everyone pays in. Let us be clear what Ronald reagan did to the tax base: he cut income tax in half and jacked up social security by 20% (http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/Content/PDF/ssrate_historical.pdf) in additon the maximum income taxable was increased, we talk about the latter mostly republicans screaming their taxes are going up (booo hoo) but we ignore that the tax was jacked up on the working class by 20% simultaneous to cutting income tax on the wealthy in half. The justification is that this was done for the long term survival of the program. Lets be real that tax didnt need to be at its current level until next year to have a balance of payments, but we've been paying it for over 25 years. This 'surplus' has been used repeatedly by republican interests to reduce the tax rate at the top and provide them with a false low rate ONLY possible because of the 100+B$ surplus the program ran. To prevent them from ever doing this again we need to make this a variable rate. We should always run a small surplus but what was done over the last 25 years is a travesty to the working and middle class. CBO needs to determine the tax rates necessary to fund SS/medicare and the variablility needs to be capped to very small increments adjusted either monthly or quarterly. They turned a pay as you go program, that they didnt agree with from the start into a cash cow for the government, brought to you by the working class. So it seems big government and high taxes are ok as long as the rich dont have to pay for it, please enlighten me if some other thing is true.... CBO needs to estimate the revenue necessary for a balance of payments 2 years in the future, and the variable rate changed very gradually to this end. This would eliminate a surplus/deficit situation. The change in the rate needs to be capped the surpuls/deficit needs to be capped and we must never use the retirement 'investment' of the masses to pay for a tax break for the top few % its disgusting, no one is talking about it and i want to hear open debate about about this abuse of the working/middle class. | |
| 366 | Thomas Heter | self | Individual | Tax labeling: All consumer products should be labeled to reveal all taxes included in the price. | |
| 367 | Timothy Szrejter | Individual | Individual | FairTax | |
| 368 | Todd Dosmann | None | Individual | Fair Tax now! | |
| 369 | Tom Brown | Retired scientist | Government | I advocate for House Bill 25, The FairTax Act. That would solve most of the current problems. It would grow the economy, would create jobs, would bring investment dollars back for overseas, and would strengthen the Social Security System. And it would remove over $300 billion in overhead costs by individuals and businesses that is inherent in our existing tax code. | |
| 370 | tom sulcer | I'm just me | Individual | Best idea -- FairTax. It collapses the 70,000 page tax code into a few hundred pages. It taxes consumption, improves savings, vastly SIMPLIFIES taxes, lets government get same $ as before. I am a handyman who has to spend $750 each year for an accountant to do my wife's and my taxes -- some parts of which I don't understand (eg what is "passive income"?) -- with FairTax, I wouldn't have to spend days each year tallying numbers or hiring an accountant. Please pass FAIRTAX. -- tom sulcer, summit NJ | |
| 371 | tony hausner | self | Individual | keep taxes graduated, so wealthier pay more. Eliminate most deductions, including mortgage as that favors wealthier. Keep a few deductions that serve key policy goals. | |
| 372 | Tony Lenzi | Self | Individual | I think federal income taxes should be adjusted for cost of living. Federal employees are compensated on top of the GS scale based on where they live because living in DC or NYC is more expensive than living in Mobile. Similarly, someone making $100,000 in DC is living equivalently to someone earning $50,000 in Pittsburgh. However, they're paying vastly different tax rates. This makes it harder on young professionals trying to save to buy a house or pay off college and graduate school loans. Virtually everything in the tax code is tied to the number of dependents you have and your income. Nothing takes into account the area in which you live. This is a huge problem that should be fixed. | |
| 373 | Trevor Jones | Citizen | Individual | Any personal financial advisor will teach the same principal: have 3-6 months of cash on hand for emergencies. Because there is no tax incentive, few Americans heed the advice. Thus, too many fall into bankruptcy and foreclosure when unexpected financial emergencies arise. And when bankruptcies and foreclosures occur, it affects communities, banks (bad debt) and neighbors. We already have good incentives in place for retirement (IRA, 401k) and for health care expenses (FSA, HSA), but how many Americans have a "rainy day" fund of a few thousand dollars, or more? Very few. How about something simple like providing a tax deduction for money deposited into a long-term bank CD (e.g., 24 or 36 months). This would encourage low- and middle-income earners to set aside money for rainy-day emergencies. Up to $10,000 could be set aside each year, and the deduction could be phased out for those with income over $150,000 or $200,000. The funds would roll from year to year and could be tapped in certain cases: job loss, death of immediate family member, or for "qualified expenses" such as unreimbursed medical expenses, auto maintenance expenses, etc. Unused funds would be rolled into new CDs to maintain tax-free growth. If a CD is untouched for a period of 10 years, the taxpayer has the right to withdraw the funds tax free -- a reward for having the discipline to be prepared and have the money on hand. No penalty should be levied (taxes due) simply because an emergency did not occur. If more Americans had money saved and set aside, we wouldn't be so affected by medical emergencies, car accidents, job losses, etc. and driven into foreclosures and bankruptcies. | |
| 374 | Tyler Tuszynski | n/a | Individual | To Whom It May Concern: I would love to see a serious and thoughtful debate/discussion on the pros and cons of the "Fair Tax". I hear many great things about it from proponents and the opposite from critics of the plan. I have researched as much as I can without utilizing the amazing resources of something as in depth as the CBO and have come to a personal conclusion that it is worth seriously looking into and having a serious debate about. If the "Fair Tax" proves to be too risky for America, I do believe we should seriously consider reducing Capital Gains taxes across the board but instituting a per trade tax on brokerages and traders. This will encourage investment, but we will be able to capture a tax per transaction instead of allowing wealth to build over time without ever realizing a tax. Respectfully, Tyler C. Tuszynski | |
| 375 | Uva B Dolezal | NA artist / writer | Individual | The Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, a United States federal financial statute law passed in 1980 - allowed institutions to charge any interest rates they chose. Please regulate this to help middle and lower class people keep their homes, and pay down their debts. The poorest "high risk" people are often charged the highest interest rates and in the case of mortgages, people are charged mortgage insurance in addition to the interest on the home loan. Returning power to the states to put a cap on all credit and loan interest legal to charge. And reinstating a Federal interest rate limit would instantly help millions of Americans. 2.Please increase taxes on interest income, and money made by buying and selling stocks. People who make their income by charging others interest are not being taxed for the money they "earn" at equivalent rates to those charged on working income paychecks. Please close as many loopholes on speculation and interest earned over $250,000.00 as is legally possible and rewrite Regulation Q for 21st century banking. 3.Tax all overdraft & late fee profits. Fees collected by all bailed out banks should belong to the people. All banking income earned by banks bailed out who charge lower or middle class persons earning under $250,000 an overdraft fee should be taxed so that all fee related profit automatically goes back to repaying the Federal government. Banks have earned record profit during this recession by increasing overdraft fees, raising interest and increasing minimum payments, all at the same time. This may seem to fall just outside of the jurisdiction of tax reform but, there needs to be a law something very simple that states, if a person has their paycheck auto deposited and their mortgage and utilities auto debited that the banks can not charge an overdraft fee for home related automatic transactions less than the paycheck for 5 business days. Federal money bailed out the banks, why should only those in the finance industry get bonuses from our situation ? FDIC insured for the lower and middle class would be much more fluid. Even if it's just for those few paychecks a year where the automatically deposited paycheck of a middle class person happens to fall on the 5th. If an overdraft fee is not a utility bill or mortgage payment, then the fee profit should belong to the Federal Reserve Bank until all bailout money is repaid. 4.Retire the penny and make a cost effective new nickel that costs less than a nickel to make. New Year 2010 would be a great year to rethink US currency. This idea is related to tax reform via sales taxes for cash transactions and cost or loss on tax revenue to the metal lobby since 2003. Yet it is a way for the Federal government to save over 100 million dollars, in a way that would benefit the market via all small businesses who count and handle cash, save fuel used making the coins and hauling change around in trucks and metal resources important to renewable and passive energy utilization, batteries, plumbing, electricity etc... It is also could be a promise kept. Obama "I will seriously consider eliminating the penny as long as we find another place for Lincoln to land." Greensburg, PA town hall meeting - March 28, 2008. And that place for Lincoln to land could be the new steel nickel. The 100 million dollar cost to tax payers numbers are from web research including these two articles. 2008 it costs about 1.26 cents to make the penny and about 7.7 cents to make the nickel. http://www.coinnews.net/2008/05/09/house-passes-bill-for-steel-cent-and-nickel-4085/ "According to the U.S. Mint, the 6.6 billion pennies produced in the 2007 fiscal year netted a $31 million net loss. The same year, nickel production caused a $70 million loss. http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2009/08/20/u-s-mint-still-losing-hundreds-of-millions.aspx Another thought along the same lines to gain public approval for a change in US currency might be to have a national vote for a new president or person important to the people for a new 25 dollar bill, along with the new nickel. Any of these 4 John Adams, Lincoln, John. F.Kennedy or Jimmy Carter would have my vote for the $25 bill. A 25 dollar bill would reduce the weight, paper and handling of money. U.S. currency weighs one gram per note (bill). The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced approximately 26 million notes a day. 57,268.72 pounds, per day of new bills. 5. The cash related sales tax could be a simplification of sales taxes. Everyday items, clothing, soap, bus tickets, shoes etc.. anything sold in the market under a certain price could be dropped to 5%. Lower income people spend a greater % of their income on sales taxable items. Dropping the penny and with it sales tax would benefit the working class. Thanks for this opportunity to present ideas to the PERAB sincerely Uva Be Dolezal Atlanta, GA | |
| 376 | Venecia Rauls | Individual | Individual | Two suggestions: 1) Please simplify the wage withholding system. Typically the goal is to end up owing 0 at the end of the year. Some people prefer to have extra withheld, but no one wants to have too little and end up with a penalty. And, based on previous tax years, it's easy to estimate the dollar amount that I need withheld for each pay period. But can I simply have that amount withheld? No. Instead I need to navigate a byzantine system of deductions that frequently results in the wrong amount being taken out and doesn't reflect my personal situation. Since the IRS charges a penalty for owing too much, there's no incentive in making me navigate a secret code in order to guess what my withholding will be. If I want $532.56 withheld, then you should allow me to simply specify that amount. 2) Why do I have to pay taxes on unemployment? That's just stupid. If I need unemployment it's because I'm... doh, unemployed. And since unemployment doesn't meet my (or most families) expenses, it also means I'm really poor right then. So I defer the taxes. But then, surprise, at the end of the year it bites me and puts me more behind. Employment isn't income -- it's welfare. Sure, welfare that I pay into directly, but hey we all pay for welfare programs through our taxes. So making people pay takes when they need help is just wrong. 3) I think it would be fascinating to allow people to specify where they'd like their taxes to go IF they could choose. Not that I'm saying you would allow choice, but wouldn't it be an interesting survey to say "if you could choose, which of the following government programs would you want to support with your taxes" include checkboxes for all the major sections of the budget (military spending, department of education, etc.). I think it would be highly educational to see what Americans are really interested in supporting -- compared to what we actually support. | |
| 377 | Vickie Orme | citizen | Individual | How about taxing everyone equally no matter how much they make. Perhaps 10% is a good target amt. The middle class can handle no more taxing. | |
| 378 | Victor E. Gray | Retired Federal Employee | Individual | I suggest a return to allowing savers to exempt interest on bank and credit union deposits from Federal Income Taxes. It used to be the first $400 of interest was exempt. Implement the Presidents promise to exempt senior couples older than 65 with incomes less than $50,000 from filing and paying Federal Income Taxes. Allow 100% medical cost deductions including all insurance premiums without requiring a percentage of income threshold to be overcome or the need to fill out an itemized deduction schedule A. Eliminate the business exemptions for paying taxes overseas. Businesses based outside the CONUS should pay full taxes on all income produced in this country. Eliminate all tax exemptions for all religions. These exemptions are the same as a subsidy and are contrary to our concept of separation of church and State. Parasites and charlatans are not deserving of a subsidy. Remove any deduction businesses use for gasoline or diesel powered vehicles. Truck traffic is a major source of greenhouse gases. Bill all expenses paid for policing and controlling illegal immigration to the country of origin. Force them to stop encouraging the illegal crossing of our borders. Repeal any law or regulation permitting US based companies from manufacturing any product outside of the CONUS. Through tax law, force the return of our major industries that migrated out of country. Create a law that would require a uniform tax protest system in all states. States routinely enforce laws that violates our right to petition for a redress of grievances guaranteed by the first amendment to our Constitution. The procedures usually are so costly to follow that only multi-millionaires can afford the effort. Look into all of the taxes imposed on telephone service. Currently, over half of my telephone bill is taxes paid to either Federal, State , County, or city. Enough is enough. Exam State Property Tax Systems. They now take from our older Americans and give to the young. It is an unfair system and needs improvement. Fraud and corruption is rampant. Our Federal Taxes as matching funds go to support this system. Reform is needed now. | |
| 379 | Victor Thuronyi | none | Individual | In an article published in Tax Notes on June 8, 2009, I argue that taxing capital gains at death is key to making the tax system simpler, more progressive, and more effective in raising revenue. Of course, it is not just a matter of repealing the step-up in basis rule. Many other changes would have to be made, including much more extensive mark-to-market taxation. I am also working on a short note on how the tax reform process can be better planned, and will share that when it is done. | |
| 380 | Walter Welsh | ACLI, AALU, GAMA, NAILBA, and NAIFA | Business | On behalf of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU), American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), GAMA International, National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (NAILBA), and National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA), we are pleased to submit the attached document for review by the Subcommittee on Tax Reform. | http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/formsubmissions/109/c3c40624eeba4c4f9b9a63541d7d9072.pdf |
| 381 | Wendy Hu | US Citizen | Individual | The Fair Tax is the only viable tax reform solution. Tell the president to start listening to the people. He works for us. | |
| 382 | William A. Burns | none | Individual | www.fairtax.org or, flat tax | |
| 383 | William David Kebschull | Taxpayer | Individual | In the spring of 1994, I realized that IRS instructions included state income tax refunds in the phase-out calculations for Schedule A deductions. This did not seem right. My suspicions were confirmed by a law review article by Professor Matthew J. Barret, "Determining the Individual’s Federal Income Tax Liability When the Tax Benefit Rule Applies: A Fifty-Year Checkup Brings a New Prescription for Calculating Gross, Adjusted Gross, and Taxable Incomes" that was published in Brigham Young University Law Review 1 (1994). The list of deductions, exemptions, exclusions, eligibilites, and credits subject to AGI and modified AGI has grown significantly since 1994 and as a consequence taxpayers have been swindled out of hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Interestingly, IRS instructions have excluded tax refunds that provided a tax benefit in a prior year when the regular tax was paid from alternative minimum taxable income and as a consequence, neither the income nor the refund related to a overpayment is taxed directly. If the sequence is reversed, so that overpayment is in a year the AMT is paid and the refund is received in a year the regular tax is paid, the income used for the tax overpayment will be taxed at the AMT rate and the refund of the overpayment will taxed at the regular tax rate. The "double or nothing taxation" produced by IRS instrutions as described above is simply insane. It also violates sections 111(a) and 56(b)(1)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code. IRS officials have found it just a little too inconvenient to answer the following questions: Question 1 How would the instruction for line 8 on Form 6251 (2008) change if section 56(b)(1)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code were amended to read as follows? (D) Treatment of certain recoveries (i) No recovery of any tax to which paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of section 164(a) applied shall be included in gross income for purposes of determining alternative minimum taxable income. (ii) Clause (i) shall not apply to any amount allowable in computing adjusted gross income. (NOTE: TO BE CLEAR, I AM NOT SUGGESTING IN ANY WAY THAT SECTION 56(B)(1)(D) BE AMENDED. I AM SIMPLY ASKING A QUESTION.) Question 2 Now precisely, in determining taxable Social Security benefits, what is it about the language in section 111(a) of the Internal Revenue Code that allows IRS to issue instructions that can result in the gross income attributable to an itemized deduction recovery exceeding the amount of the recovery by up to 85 percent? I have proposed a change in the Internal Revenue Code that may be useful in ending the swindles and frauds that IRS is so determined to perpetuate. The issues and the proposal are contained in my statement, " A Proposed Deterent to Internal Revenue Service Frauds and Swindles Related to IRS's Interpretation of Sections 56(b)(1)(D) and 111(a) of the Internal Revenue Code". Submitted by: William David Kebschull 216 Goucher Way Churchville, Maryland 21028 | http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/formsubmissions/109/d2c6b7e89c974c6590e36033ab436f04.docx |
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Also, I have to point out that the Fairtax is a scam
Ah, the FAIRtax! Its only a 23% sales tax - except that it isn't. Its the equivalent of a 23% income tax - sort of - because income taxes are subtracted from total income whereas sales taxes are added to sales prices. Its actually a 30% sales tax. And that's 30% on all sales, not just retail. Sell your house - pay 30%. Sell your car - 30%. Sell your stocks - they needed to appreciate 30% for you to break even (remember we're talking 30% of sales price - its a transaction tax, not a VAT or capital gains tax). Of course exceptions could be made for any of these things, but that would just require the rate to go up for everything else. Whether or not this is a better model than the current system with its total marginal rates of 40+% for the upper middle class is debateable, but what isn't debateable is that the "FAIR" tax is not some "Everybody Wins!" free lunch like the fairtax cult would have you believe. A sales tax that high would create a huge incentive to save and a huge disincentive to buy stuff. Since most of our economy is driven by consumer spending, I have a hard time seeing how the results of that could be positive. Hey, I hate the income tax as much as anyone, but the revenue it brings in would be difficult to get in any other manner. If we want to reduce tax burdon in this country we need to do it the right way and stop the government from spending so much money it doesn't have.
I Recommend 273
I'm going to highly recommend #273. The federal government needs to define what is considered taxable income for state income tax purposes. You can't leave it up to the states to do it themselves as they've proven they can't do it fairly or efficiently. There is far too much overlapping taxation and even though your state of residence will usually give you a (nonrefundable) credit against taxes paid to other states, this effectively forces you to pay the higher of the two rates and thus prevents the states from having to compete for residents by adjusting their income tax rates. This is mainly an issue for those living and working in multiple states but probably also comes up for people owning a business in a state they no longer live or work in amongst other scenarios. It is blatently unfair for a state to tax the income of a nonresident and deprive the state where that earner lives (and thus derives their services from) of that tax money to fund their services. It is blatently unfair for a resident of a low or no income tax state to have to pay income tax to a high income tax state and then pay the higher property and sales taxes in their resident state.
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A Lesson in Corporate Tax Avoidance
This Bloomberg Businessweek article paints a very clear picture of the army which is involved in avoiding corporate tax and the requirements of the IRS army needed to pursue tax collection. Main article - I especially like the last sentence: http://files.meetup.com/1418624/Forest%20Lab...oratories%27%20Globe-Trotting%20Profits.pdf Summary - very compelling snapshot: http://files.meetup.com/1418624/Lexapros%20Long%20Strange%20Trip.pdf Who do we think is going to win this chase and many others like it? How much needs to be wasted before we eliminate income taxes? Respectfully, we need to seriously consider the merits of H.R. 25 - the Fair Tax Act.